Dumont, Theron Q.

Theron Q. Dumont pseudonym for William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to William and Emma Atkinson. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. Atkinson pursued a business career and was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and found it with New Thought Movement and later attribut...