William, Thomas A., and Greenberry Thompson Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Wingville, Biographical Sketches, Page 996

WILLIAM THOMPSON, clerk for Mr. Schenk, Montfort; born at Sun Prairie, Dane Co., 
June, 1853; his parents were natives of Scotland; he was engaged in teaching 
school in Dodgeville for three years, has also taught in Grant Co.; he came to 
Montfort, May, 1880. He was married to Hannah Bennett, daughter of' Matthew 
Bennett; they have two children - Frankie and Gordon.

THOMAS A. THOMPSON, carpenter and builder, Montfort; born in Canada near the 
Vermont line in 1840; his father died in Canada; his mother afterward married Mr. 
William Cook, and removed to Illinois about 1855; they came to Grant Co. about 
1856, and settled in Clifton, where his mother still resides; her husband, Mr. 
Cook, was a soldier in the army during the rebellion, and died of disease 
contracted while in the service; Thomas is the only child of his mother living by 
her first husband; she has six children by her second husband. Thomas came to 
Grant Co. in 1868, from Plattsburgh, N. Y. he was married to Jennie Row; has three 
children - Alymer, Frank and Albert S.; he learned his trade in Boston, where he 
worked about six years; his father was a native of Scotland, his mother of Canada

GREENBERRY THOMPSON, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Montfort; was born in Jackson Co., 
Ill., Jan. 15, 1815; his parents removed to Arkansas when he was a child, but 
afterward returned to Illinois, where they resided till their decease; he was one 
of the early settlers of Grant Co.; came to the county in April, 1846, and settled 
where he now lives about 1848.  He was married in Illinois to Charlotte Henderson, 
born in Jackson Co., Ill.; they have eight children - General Marion, Jefferson 
Lafayette, William Spencer, Serena, Sophronia, Ephraim, Olive and Emma; lost one 
daughter.