BIO: Frank E. Thompson, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

397  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  FRANK E. THOMPSON, of the firm of Dale & Thompson, grain and coal 
merchants, Carlisle, was born in that place December 1, 1847, son of 
Joseph C. and Jane (Smith, Thompson, natives of Carlisle, where they 
now reside, respected citizens, later a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.  Joseph C. Thompson is a printer by trade, having 
learned the business in the office of the American Volunteer and other 
papers of Carlisle, and for many years he was foreman in the office of 
the Volunteer and Carlisle Herald.  They had four sons and five 
daughters, of whom three sons and three daughters are living; Annie, 
wife of A. J. Hecker, a carpenter and contractor, of Carlisle; Sallie 
S., unmarried; Frank E.; Harriet C.; J. Marlin, engaged in the transfer 
business, in Carlisle; John M., saddler of Carlisle, and Frank E.  Our 
subject was educated at the schools of his native place, and at the age 
of seventeen years began clerking in a dry goods store for Leidich & 
Miller, of Carlisle, with whom he remained for a short time.  He next 
worked for a brief period at the carpenter's trade, when he went to 
Harrisburg, where he clerked for three years and later engaged as clerk 
with G. B. Hoffman, in the grocery business, with whom he remained for 
a short time, when he was appointed agent at Carlisle for the Adams 
Express Company, which position he held for five years, when he 
resigned and bought the interest of Mr. A. Bosler, in the grain and 
coal house of A. Bosler & Dale, and the firm has since been Dale & 
Thompson.  March 19, 1878, Mr. Thompson married Miss Annie S. Black, 
who was born in Carlisle, a daughter of Robert M. and Sarah (Barnhardt) 
Black, natives of Cumberland County, former an architect, contractor 
and builder, of Carlisle.  Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have two children:  
Laura A. and Nellie.  Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Reformed Church, 
and Mr. Thompson is a member of St. John Lodge, No. 260 F. & A. M., St. 
John's Chapter, No. 171, R. A. M., K. T., St. John Commandery No. 8; is 
a member of Carlisle Lodge No. 91, I. O. O. F., and a member of the I. 
O. H.  He is among the enterprising and representative men of Carlisle.