Plumas-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Thompson, Richard 1824 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   RICHARD THOMPSON.—This gentleman is a son of Isaac and Catherine (Sephton)
Thompson, who were of English birth, and emigrated to Canada, where they were
married in the city of Quebec. Here the subject of our sketch, Richard, was born
on the twenty-seventh of November, 1824. He was the oldest of a family of five
brothers and two sisters, all of whom were born in Canada. When a boy, Richard
learned the blacksmithing trade, and for a short time followed it. The next
venture for self-support was as a clerk in a grocery store in Quebec. There he
remained until news of the great gold field of California reached Quebec. He
then started, via Cape Horn, to San Francisco, where he arrived in September,
1850. He worked at his trade until February, 1851, when he started to Rich bar,
and mined until the fall of 1852, when he came to Spanish Ranch and opened a
shop, which he carried on till 1856. Then Mr. Kellogg joined him, and they
opened a hardware store, continuing the business till 1861, when they purchased
the Spanish Ranch, and opened a general merchandise store; and in 1882 we find
them sole proprietors of Spanish Ranch, doing a farming, mining, mercantile, and
banking business, together with blacksmithing and hotel-keeping. Mr. Thompson
was married January 20, 1860, to Miss Sarah J. Russell, by whom he has had two
sons: Charles Russell, born at Spanish Ranch August 23,1863; and William
Hundley, born December 27, 1865. Mrs. Thompson died November 19, 1872, and is
interred in the Meadow valley burying-ground. Mr. Thompson was married again to
Miss Alicia S. Keough of Meganti county, Canada, on the twenty fourth of August,
1874. He joined the order of Odd Fellows in Canada, and at present is a member
of the Quincy lodge.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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