Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Thompson, Frank M. 1859 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

FRANK M. THOMPSON was born in Mundy Township, Genesee County, September 11,
1859. He is a son of Maxwell and Jane (Winget) Thompson, of Rushville, N. Y.,
and his grandfather was James Thompson, also of New York. The latter owned a
farm in Cayuga County, N. Y., and operated a plaster quarry. The family is of
Scotch extraction. Maxwell Thompson was reared on a farm in Cayuga County, and
was there engaged in the mercantile business till alout 1830. Three years later
he came to Michigan and took up Government land in Genesee County, He here spent
his summers and returned to his business in Rushville, N. Y., during the winter,
continuing this for three years.

  Maxwell Thompson was of a speculative nature and was largely engaged on first
coming here in buying and selling new land. In 1836 he returned to this State
and purchased a large tract located in various portions of the State, and
finally, in 1839, settling in Mundy Township, but not remaining permanently
until 1842. He kept bachelor's hall in a log house on the Baldwin Road. He there
lived for several years, marketing his wheat in Detroit and selling it for
twenty-five cents a bushel. He followed an Indian trail from his place for a
number of years, there being no roads laid out.

  In 1850 our subject's father was married to Miss Jane Winget, a native of
Ontario County, N. Y. Their marriage was solemnized in Detroit. They continued
to live in the log house until about 1858 and then moved on the Flint and
Fen-ton Road. In 1861 he moved into the Lee Hotel on land he purchased in Fen
ton Township and there lived until 1869, when he removed to Fenton. His decease
occurred January 15, 1888, when at the age of eighty-three years. He was a hard
worker and a persistent student, becoming quite a lawyer although he was never
admitted to the bar. He often, however, tried cases in the petty courts and was
consulted by more than one prominent attorney. He owned about twelve hundred
acres of land at the time of his decease. He was particularly interested in the
raising of sheep and had one thousand head at the time of his death.

  Our subject is one of two children born to his parents, he being the elder. He
received his education for the most part in Fen ton, attending the Fenton High
School until he had finished his junior year. He then spent one year in Detroit
in attendance at the Goldsmith Commercial College and also spent one term at the
Orchard Lake Military Academy. He then read law for about three months and was
variously engaged in clerking and buying wool and was also in the hardware
business for four years, paying attention to farming for seven years. In March,
1891, he moved to Fenton.

  On the 28th of December, 1882, our subject was married to Miss Belle Adams,
who was born in Oregon. She is a daughter of J. Charles and Helen (Ellis) Adams,
both of New York. They were married in San Francisco and lived on the coast for
about eight years, thence came to Michigan and settled in Grand Blanc Township,
where they reside at the present time. Our subject and his wife have two
children-Charles M. and Nina B. Mr. Thompson is a Republican in politics. He
owns three hundred acres of land in this township besides three other farms. He
has five hundred and sixty acres in Mundy Township and one hundred and forty
acres in Fenton Township. He pays particular attention to the raising of sheep
and has now six hundred head.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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