Sonoma-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Thompson, Thomas Larkin 1838 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 3, 2006, 5:47 pm

Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Thompson, Thomas Larkin. The subject of this sketch is a native of Kanawha
county, Virginia (now West Virginia), having been born there on May 31, 1838. At
the early age of twelve years he entered the office of the West Virginian, then
published at Charterton, and there attained a fair knowledge of the printing
business. He attended the Buffalo Academy, in Putnam county, West Virginia,
during the years 1853-54, and in 1855 came to California by the Panama route,
arriving in the month of April. On arrival Mr. Thompson worked for a short time
at a case on the San Francisco Herald; he then located in Petaluma, and when but
seventeen years old established the Petaluma Journal. In 1856 he sold out the
Journal office, returned to San Francisco and resumed work at the case on the
Herald. In 1858, without solicitation or influence, was appointed to a clerkship
in the San Francisco Postoffice, where he served for two years under the
administration of Colonel C. L. Weller, when he resigned to re-engage in the
newspaper business. In 1859 he married Miss Marion Satterlee, daughter of
William Satterlee, of San Francisco. In April, 1860, he purchased The Sonoma
Democrat, and located permanently in Santa Rosa. Published the Democrat until
1868, then sold it to Peabody, Ferrall & Co., and in anticipation of the
construction of a railroad from Santa Rosa to Vallejo, Solano county, moved
thither. Published at Vallejo the Solano Democrat and Vallejo Daily Independent,
both issued from the same office. In 1871, re-purchased The Sonoma Democrat and
established the first steam printing house in the county. In 1873, disposed of
all interests at Vallejo and relocated with his family in Santa Rosa. In 1875,
in addition to The Sonoma Democrat (weekly), established the Daily Santa Rosa
Democrat, which was published as a first-class paper, with Eastern and Coast
telegraphic reports, four years, until August, 1879, when, on account of the
general depression prevailing in business circles it was temporarily suspended.
Mr. Thompson is at present engaged in publishing The Sonoma Democrat in Santa
Rosa, where he resides with his family. No man throughout the length and breadth
of Sonoma has done more to forward the interests of the county. "When necessary
he has never flinched from exposing existing evils; he is just in his dealings,
true to his instincts and honest in his convictions. He is a man of great
information, genial in his manners, and no better friend or companion exists
than Thomas L. Thompson of the Democrat.



Additional Comments:
Santa Rosa Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/thompson282gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/

File size: 4.0 Kb