Bio of THOMPSON, George Patterson (b.1871), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 561-562
GEORGE PATTERSON THOMPSON
Minneapolis numbers among her foremost business men George Patterson Thompson,
president of the Thompson Yards, Incorporated. He was born in Walnut, Illinois,
on the 1st of June, 1871, a son of L. K. and Elizabeth (Buzzahrt) Thompson.
The public schools of Walnut afforded George Patterson Thompson his early
education and in due time he was graduated from high school. He remained on the
home farm until he was sixteen years of age, when he became an apprentice in a
lumberyard, being active in that connection from 1887 to 1888. His close
application to the thing at hand, ability and ambition won for him constant
promotion and in 1889 he was made manager of the Cone-Brown Lumber Company of
Walnut. In 1892 he resigned that position and became associated with the
Brainerd Lumber Company of Brainerd, Minnesota, as traveling salesman. He was
active in that connection until 1901, in which year he came to Minneapolis and
organized the North Star Lumber Company, of which he became secretary-treasurer.
In 1915 he organized the Thompson Yards, Incorporated, and has since been
president of the organization. The other officers of the company are: H. H.
Irvine, vice president; F. E. Weyerhaeuser, treasurer; and H. J. Richardson,
secretary. They are all prominent in the business circles of Minneapolis, being
men of well proven ability. Several years ago Thompson Yards, Incorporated,
bought out several line yard lumber companies and is said to be one of the
largest retail lumber concerns now in operation. The company operates
lumberyards in five northwestern states: North and South Dakota, Montana, Iowa
and Minnesota. It also maintains a large Twin City distributing wholesale and
retail yard, which is located at Emerald and University avenues. This
distributing yard is one of the largest in this country and is electrically
operated. A large number of cars of lumber are unloaded and loaded daily by huge
electric cranes which lift from three thousand to four thou­sand feet of lumber
at one time. The wholesale department of the concern ships lumber throughout the
middle west and eastern territory.
In 1891 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Thompson and Miss Amy Irving, the
ceremony being performed at Walnut, Illinois. Mrs. Thompson's father was J. L.
Irving, a prominent resident of that community. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have one
son, J. I., and two daughters, Inez E., wife of B. E. Fawkes of this city; and
Marian T., who married Carter Gregg, also of Minneapolis.
In his political views Mr. Thompson is a stanch republican. Fraternally he holds
membership in the Masons and the Knights of Pythias and socially he is
identified with the Minneapolis, Minneapolis Athletic, Lafayette, Interlachen,
Mini-kahda and Automobile Clubs.