Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Thompson, John 1835 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

John Thompson, farmer, P. O. Morris, was born in Canada, July 4, 1835, son of 
James and Hannah Thompson. About 1838, his parents moved to Dresden, Grundy 
Co., Ill., where they lived for some years, and where the mother of our 
subject died the first year after their arrival. John's father next bought a 
farm in Wauponsee Township, to which they removed, and where the father died 
April 12, 1880. Mr. John Thompson was married, March 10, 1856, to Miss Mary 
Jane Thompson, daughter of David Thompson, of Ireland. She was born in 1835, 
and died at their residence, in Wauponsee Township, May 12, 1882. The family 
consists of three children, viz., James, born August 29, 1857; Susan, born 
October 12, 1859, and Samuel, born August 2, 1865. Mr. Thompson owns 120 acres 
of good farm land, in Sections 17 and 30, of Wauponsee Township. This land is 
valued at $50 an acre, 100 acres of which are under cultivation. He is a 
member of the Episcopal Church, and a Republican in politics.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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