Editing Daniel D. Tompkins (section)

==Name==
Tompkins was baptized '''Daniel Tompkins''', but added the middle initial "D." either before or during his time as a student at Columbia College. According to his granddaughter, Helen T. Tompkins, this was to distinguish himself from another Daniel Tompkins who was a student there, though records of Columbia College do not list another Daniel Tompkins studying at Columbia at the time.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ig4UAAAAIAAJ&q=Daniel+D.+Tompkins+middle+name&pg=PA502 |title=State Service: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Government of the State of New York and Its Affairs |date=1919 |publisher=State Service Magazine Company, Incorporated |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=University |first=Columbia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-phPAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Sampson+Simson%22+%22columbia+college%22+alumni&pg=PA55 |title=Catalogue of the Governors, Trustees, and Officers, and of the Alumni and Other Graduates, of Columbia College (originally King's College), in the City of New York, from 1754 to 1876 |date=1876 |publisher=college |language=en}}</ref> There is controversy as to what the middle initial stood for; some have suggested "Decius".<ref>{{cite book |date=1969 |title=Publishers weekly, Volume 195, Part 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BLpEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22tompkins+daniel+decius%22 |location=New Providence, New Jersey |publisher=R.R. Bowker Co. |page=100}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Fredriksen |first=John C. |date=2000 |title=Green Coats and Glory: The United States Regiment of Riflemen, 1808–1821 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nr83AAAAMAAJ&q=%22decius%22 |location=Youngstown, NY |publisher=Old Fort Niagara Association |page=29|isbn=9780941967228 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=New York State Historical Association |date=1920 |title=Governor Tompkins' Middle Name |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ig4UAAAAIAAJ&q=%22daniel+d.+tompkins%22+%22initial%22&pg=PA502 |journal=State Service: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Government of the State of New York and Its Affairs |volume=4 |location=Albany, NY |publisher=State Service Magazine Co., Inc. |page=502}}</ref> The generally accepted conclusion is that it did not stand for anything and served only to distinguish him from another Daniel Tompkins who perhaps studied with him in primary or secondary school.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Winchester |first=Charles M. |date=February 1, 1920 |title=New York's Forty-Four Governors |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ig4UAAAAIAAJ&q=Daniel+D.+Tompkins+middle+name&pg=PA502 |journal=State Service: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine |location=Albany, NY |publisher=State Service Magazine Company |pages=147}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Winchester |first=Charles M. |date=June 1, 1920 |title=Governor Tompkins' Middle Name |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ig4UAAAAIAAJ&q=Daniel+D.+Tompkins+middle+name&pg=PA502 |journal=State Service: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine |location=Albany, NY |publisher=State Service Magazine Company |pages=502}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Skinner|first=Charles R. |date=1919 |title=Governors of New York from 1777 to 1920 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zmgmAAAAYAAJ&q=Daniel+D.+Tompkins+middle+name&pg=PA2 |location=Albany, NY |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Henry T. |date=1898 |title=Manual of Westchester County |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Uw_AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Daniel+D.+Tompkins%22+middle+initial+name&pg=PA246 |location=White Plains, NY |publisher=Henry T. Smith |page=246}}</ref>