BIO:  DAVID R. THOMPSON, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 797
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     DAVID R. THOMPSON, of Carlisle, editor and publisher of the Sentinel, has
  practically been connected with that paper throughout his active years. He
  was born in 1856 in Carlisle, son of Thomas B. and Elmina (Ringwalt)
  Thompson, the former of whom was a native of Carlisle and came of
  Scotch-Irish and German ancestry. The mother belonged to the Ringwalts and
  Wilsons, and was of German and English descent.

    David R. Thompson attended the common schools of Carlisle, and learned the
  printer's trade there in the office of the Sentinel, subsequently spending
  three years in Lancaster, perfecting himself in the art in the office of the
  Lancaster Inquirer. In time he became foreman of the Sentinel office; was
  promoted to the position of city news editor; then became business manager,
  and in 1894 purchased the business, which has ever since been in his hands.
  He has devoted his life to his profession, and has led a quiet, even life,
  proving his usefulness as a citizen, however, in many ways. His especial
  activity has been along the line of religious work. He is an earnest member
  of the First Presbyterian Church, in which he has been an elder and
  Sunday-school superintendent since 1882, and he is also a member of the Y. M.
  C. A. He holds membership in Lodge No. 91, I. O. O. F., of Carlisle, and in
  the Good Will Fire Company. Mr. Thompson was a Prohibitionist from 1883 to
  1889, and has since been an advocate of the Democratic party.

    On Dec. 19, 1882, Mr. Thompson was married to Miss Mary Kutz, of Carlisle,
  who is a daughter of Gideon and Mary (Gutshall) Kutz, of Carlisle, and
  belongs therefore to the Kutz, Gutshall and Duke families; she is of German
  and English extraction. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have been born the following
  named children: Allan Douglass, now a student in Dickinson College; Joseph
  Vance, Mary McCaskey, Margaret Mapes, all attending the common schools; and
  D. Wilson, aged five.