Macon County AlArchives Biographies.....Thompson, Charles W. 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 453-454

Charles W. Thompson, prominent as a banker and merchant of Tuskegee, is a 
native of Macon county, Ala., and a son of William P. and Mary W. (Jordan) 
Thompson, who were respectively born in Talladega county, Ala, in 1839 and near 
Richmond, Va., in 1840.  Mrs. Mary W. Thompson came to Alabama with her 
parents, and was married in Macon county, where she still resides; William P. 
Thompson died in January, 1891.  He had passed nearly all his life in Macon 
county, and although possessed of limited capital at the start, became one of 
the county’s most successful and wealthy merchant, and held the implicit 
confidence and esteem of the community.  He served through the late war as a 
private in the Forty-third Alabama infantry, and also served as sheriff of 
Macon county from 1880 until 1884.  He died a Mason, and a member of the 
Primitive Baptist church.  His father, Alfred Thompson, died about 1882, in 
Macon county, of which he was a pioneer farmer.  He had three sons in the 
Confederate army, viz.:  James, who was killed at Atlanta July 22, 1864, while 
serving with the Forty-third Alabama, William p. as already mentioned, and 
Robert, who was also a member of the Forty-third regiment.  Charles W. Thompson 
is the eldest of a family of nine sons and two daughters.  He was educated at 
Tuskegee, and in 1880, at the age of twenty years, assumed charge of his 
father’s mercantile business, which he has ever since controlled with marked 
ability, doing now a trade that reaches the immense sum of $100,000 per annum.  
In 1890 he organized the Tuskegee Alliance Warehouse company, of which he is 
the present secretary and treasurer.  He is also largely interested in planting 
and is one of the shrewdest and most successful business men of the county.  He 
is am ember of the city council, and in 1885 was county superintendent of 
education.  His marriage took place in 1180, to Miss Estella, daughter of 
William Alley, a machinist, who is now deceased.  Tuskegee is the birthplace of 
Mrs. Thompson, and in its Female institute she received her education, being a 
refined and cultured Christian lady.  Mr. Thompson is C. C. of the K. of P. 
council, No. 107, and is a member of the A. L. of H., also a steward of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and Sunday school superintendent.

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