BIO: George W. THOMPSON, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 348.
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  G. W. THOMSON, M.D., retired physician, Mount Union, Huntingdon 
county, Pa., was born in Half Moon township, Centre county, Pa., May 
16, 1826, and is a son of John and Lydia (Blake) Thomson. John Thomson 
was born May 13, 1799, on the farm where all his family were raised. He 
made farming his life-long occupation. Mrs. Thomson was the daughter of 
John Blake, and was born in Chester county, Pa. Besides Dr. G. W. 
Thomson, their children were: Joseph, deceased; John K., physician, who 
practiced in Indiana county, Pa., where he died eight years ago, not 
married; Martha, single, lives in Williamsport, Pa.; Lydia, wife of 
George Harrlocker, resides in Montoursville, near Williamsport, Pa.; H. 
A., resides in Dayton, O.; J. F., a physician, married to Nettie 
Pauling, resides in Liverpool, Perry county, Pa.; Homer S., of Shade 
valley, Juniata county, Pa.; A. J., lived on the old homestead, was 
four years the junior of Dr. G. W., died in the fall of 1895; and three 
children who died in early childhood. The mother, Mrs. J. Thomson, died 
in 1872; her husband survived her until January of the centennial year, 
1876, when he also died, at the age of seventy-nine.
  The education of Dr. G. W. Thomson was begun in an old log school 
house on his father's farm, in Half Moon township, Centre county. When 
grounded in the elementary branches, he studied for two years at 
Allegheny College, in Westmoreland county. He began reading medicine 
with his brother, Dr. J. K. Thomson, in Indiana county, and afterwards 
became a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which 
institution he received his diploma, and began practice in 1854. He had 
had an experience of fourteen years in the profession when he came to 
Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, from which place he removed to Mount 
Union, and has ever since resided there. During the war, Dr. Thomson 
was assistant surgeon in the Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He 
was formerly a member of the Order of Red Men, also of the Lodge of 
I.O.O.F., at Mill Creek. He has a life-long attachment to the 
Democratic party, and is an active worker for its interests. He is a 
school director and was for two terms mayor of Mount Union.
  The first marriage of Dr. G. W. Thomson was to Rebecca, daughter of 
Robert and Charlotte Dougherty, of Clearfield county, Pa. Their 
children are: Homer K., deceased; and J. Harry. The present Mrs. 
Thomson was Miss Linnie McGarvey, of Orbisonia, Pa., whose children, 
three in number, are: George W.; Charles B.; and Frank A.

1880 Mount Union, Huntingdon County census -
George W. Thompson, 54  
Linnia Thompson, 36  
J. Harry Thompson, 16  
George W. Thompson, 10  
Charlie B. Thompson, 8