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Author: William Harden
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   DE WITT BUTLER THOMPSON has been a resident of Vienna for about twenty-one
years, having come to this city in 1890. He is a native of the state of Georgia,
born in Houston county on September 4, 1861, and is the son of Steven L. and
Margaret Elizabeth Thompson, both of Houston county.

   Mr. Thompson was educated in the common schools of his county and remained
under the care and guardianship of his parents until he was sixteen, at which
early age he took service with the Macon & Brunswick Railroad as water boy. He
continued in railroad work in various capacities and eventually became a section
foreman. After fifteen years in the employ of the Macon & Brunswick road he
severed his connection with the company, and established the merchandise
business which he is now conducting. He has prospered as a merchant, and has
been the author of splendid accomplishments in industrial lines. To Mr. Thompson
is ascribed the credit for the building of the first cotton gin in Vienna, and
he was the first man to introduce the cylinder bail idea in this section of the
country. He is the owner of a large quantity of real estate and owns the store
building where he carries on his merchandise business. It is a fine up-to-date
store, eighty by eighty-eight feet in size, and is well equipped and thoroughly
modern. In addition he conducts a large warehouse where they handle cotton, hay,
feed and other produce. He also owns his beautiful home in Vienna.

   Mr. Thompson is a man who has taken his full share of the civic
responsibilities of the community, and has served as alderman on the city board
for two terms. He is always ready and willing to assume a generous part of the
burdens of the communal life, and has ever acquitted himself as a most exemplary
citizen in the long years of his identification with the business life of
Vienna. The Thompson family has ever shared in the responsibilities of worthy
citizens, and the father of Mr. Thompson, as well as two of his brothers, served
their state in the years of strife between the North and the South.

   Mr. Thompson was married on August 5, 1886, to Miss Margaret Daugherty, of
Isle of Wight county, Georgia. She died on September 12, 1888, and on March 20,
1889, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Crumpton of Florida.
Six children have been born to them: Maggie, aged twenty-one years; Steven
Milton, aged twenty; Mary, sixteen years of age; Sadie, aged thirteen years;
Annie Lou, eleven years old, and D. B., Jr., aged five years.

   Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is
identified with the various organizations of that church.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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