BIOGRAPHY: Walter R. THOMPSON, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 129
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WALTER R. THOMPSON, editor, proprietor and founder of the Ebensburg Mountaineer, 
is a son of James M. and Frances (Rogers) Thompson, whose history appears above, 
and was born in Ebensburg, October 20, 1867. He received his education in the 
common schools of Ebensburg, and at an early age learned the trade of a printer. 
For some time he was employed as a draughtsman in the Johnson Company's works, 
at Johnstown. 
     In 1891, in partnership with John L. Sechler, he founded the Ebensburg 
Mountaineer, and on June 18, of the same year, issued the first copy. The 
partnership continued four months, when Mr. Thompson purchased the entire paper, 
which he has published ever since. 
     The Ebensburg Mountaineer is a six-column quarto eight-page paper, 
republican in politics, devoted to home matters and local news and ever alive to 
the interest of Ebensburg and Cambria county, having an extensive local and 
rural circulation. The office of the Ebensburg Mountaineer is in the Opera House 
block, Ebensburg, where, besides editing this newsy paper, Mr. Thompson does an 
extensive job-printing business. 
     Fraternally he is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. & A. M., of 
Ebensburg, and belongs to the Sons of Veterans, Lieut. Hugh Jones Camp, No. 227. 
     He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and on February 14, 1891, 
celebrated his marriage to Miss Anna Frederick, of Homer City, Indiana county. 
They have two children: Frances M., born June 12, 1892, and Anna H., born 
September 24, 1895.