Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Thomson, William 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

William Thomson, farmer, section 28, Ustick Township, is the son of Thomas and 
Margaret (Skeoch) Thomson. His parents were natives of Scotland, and died 
there in the year 1848. Their surviving children were born in the following 
order: Mary, Jeannette, John, William, Margaret and Jane; two died in infancy. 
Mr. Thomson was born March 19, 1822, in Scotland. He came to the United States 
in 1850, and settled in Virginia, where he was engaged in agricultural 
pursuits 13 years; after which he passed two years as a construction hand on a 
railroad in Maryland. In 1865 he came to Whiteside County, engaging first as a 
renter in Hopkins Township. In 1870 he bought 160 acres of land in the 
Township of Ustick. To this he has added by later purchase until he owns 380 
acres, nearly all of which is under cultivation. The place is supplied with 
handsome and valuable buildings. Mr. Tompson was married June 2, 1847, in 
Ayrshire, Scotland, to Jane, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Walker) Bums. 
She was born Nov. 16, 1820, in Scotland. She has become the mother of eight 
children: Elizabeth W., Anna B., William, Archibald T., Robert B., Margaret 
J., Hugh D. and Mary J. Mr. Thompson is an adherent in politics of the 
National Greenback party, and in temperance principles is a prohibitionist. He 
and wife are members of the Protestant Methodist Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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