Harry W. THOMPSON From "History of North Washington" Published 1904

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From "History of North Washington" Published 1904
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HARRY W. THOMPSON
	Harry W. Thompson is well known in northern Washington, and also
to the newspaper fraternity throughout the state of Washington.  At the
present time he is conducting a hotel in Republic and a farm near by.  He 
was born in Hennepin county, Minnesota, on June 1, 1862, being the son of
Augustus and Sarah (Bazley) Thompson, natives of Pennsylvania and England,
respectively.  The parents settled in Minnesota after their marriage, 
where the father died in 1892, and the mother still lives.  They were the 
parents of fifteen children, named as follows, Mary, Fannie, Augustin, 
William,Sarah,Harry W.,Charles,Fred, Lora,Lillie,Ellen,George, Vernie,
and two others who died in infancy.  The father of our subject was a 
veteran of the Mexican war, and after that he followed farming for the 
remainder of his life.  
	Harry W. received his education in Hennepin county and later took
a course in the Minneapolis business college.  At the age of twenty-one 
he began life for himself, and the first year operated his mother's farm. 
After that he came to Washington and located in Dayton, where he was 
engaged in a printing office for two years.  He then went to Okanogan Co.,
being one of the first settlers there, and was employed as compositor on 
the first paper published in that county.  In 1890 Mr. Thompson bought 
out the Okanogan Outlook and operated it for eight years.  In 1892, he 
lost everything by fire, but rebuilt and went forward with the business 
until 1896,when his entire property was washed away in the flood.  Again 
he rebuilt and continued the business for two years more, then 
discontinued and went into the hotel business for one year.
	Later we see him in Toroda in the merchandise business, and in 
1898 he settled in Republic and he opened the Thompson hotel which he 
operated nearly two years.  Then he took a homestead adjoining the town, 
which he still owns.  About one third of the place is under cultivation, 
and is supplied with good fences, buildings and other improvements. Later 
Mr. Thompson opened the Eureka house, and then took charge of the Delaware
Hotel, which he runs now as a first-class house.
	In 1883, Mr. Thompson married Miss Josephine Sly, and to them five
children have been born, named as follows, Pearl, Lulu, Perry, Raymond, 
and Richard.
	Politically, Mr. Thompson is a Republican, and recently took the 
field for county assessor, but as the county was Democratic, he did not
win. He has been school director at various times and has held various 
other office.  Fraternally, he is affiliated with the I.O.O.F., the 
Rebekahs,and the Fraternal Army.  His wife and daughters belong to the 
Rebekahs, and his wife to the Eastern Star.
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