Turner County, SD Biographies.....Thomson, James S. November 12, 1866 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

JAMES S. THOMSON, cashier of the Bank of Centerville, Turner county, is a native of
County Fife, Scotland, and was born November 12, 1866. His father, John Thomson, is
a native of same place, where he still resides; he is the senior member of the firm
of William Thomson & Son, linen manufacturers, and one of the prominent and
well-known men of Strathmeglo.

Our subject is the youngest of a family of nine children, and was reared in
Strathmeglo, where he attended the public schools until fourteen years of age.
Later, he entered Stewart’s college, at Edinburgh, and at the age of sixteen he
secured a position in the law office of Romanes & Munro, with whom he remained three
years. At the expiration of that time he became cashier and book-keeper for James
Murry, provision dealer at Leith, with whom he remained about a year, and then went
into partnership with Keddie & Hood, of the same town, in the wholesale grocery
business. Eight months later he left the land of his birth for America, which was in
1888, and came direct to Centerville, S. Dak. He was engaged first with the firm of
J. H. Queal & Company, lumber dealers, having charge of their yard and interests for
about two and a half years, and in 1890 secured the position of assistant in the
Rank of Centerville. He served in this capacity for a period of five years, and was
then appointed cashier, which office he now holds, also being a director and
stockholder in same. The bank has a capital of $10,000, with a surplus and undivided
profits of $8,600, and does a general banking business, as well as making loans on
farm property.

Mr. Thomson is a Republican politically and a member of the following orders:
Masonic fraternity; K. of P., of which he is chancellor commander, and I. O. O. F.,
being a past grand of the latter society. He is a man of sound judgment and of
financial talents of a high order, and his standing in social and monetary circles
is among the best men of the community.


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