BIOGRAPHIES:  Samuel THOMPSON Jr., Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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Samuel Thompson, Jr., farmer, P. O. Durand, Pepin county, was born
near Montreal, Canada, October 5, 1844.  His great-grandfather,
William Thompson, was a naitve of Massachusetts, of Scotch descent. 
His son, Samuel Thompson, was born at Essex, Vt.  He married Clara
Allen and removed to Canada in 1806.  He served in the British army
in the war of 1812, but later removed to New York and lived near
Rochester for several years.  He died at Waubeek, January 13, 1857. 
Samuel Thompson, his son, and the father of our subject, was born in
Vermont May 4, 1802.  He married in Canada, Catherine Baskin, a
native of Ireland.  The names of their children are as follows: 
William, Clarissa (Mrs. J. Arthurs), Catherine (Mrs. C. Stewart),
Samuel (the subject of this sketch), Jane (Mrs. Maxwell), and Lavinia
(Mrs. J. Stewart).  Mrs. Catherine Thompson died in Waubeek April 6,
1883.  She was born May 22, 1812.  Samuel Thompson, Sr., still
resides here.  When a small boy the subject of this sketch removed
with his parents to Waubeek, where he attended the district school. 
In March, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, Thirty-seventh Wisconsin
volunteers, and took part in the battles of Cold Harbor and the
Wilderness, the siege of Petersburgh and Richmond and the grand
review at Washington, and was discharged in August, 1865.  He
returned home and purchased part of the homestead, and worked in a
saw-mill to clear the debt which hung over it.

March 14, 1868, he married Frances, daughter of Philander
Huntsinger.  Four children blessed this union, namely:  William C.,
Samuel F., Peter H., and Clara.  Mr. Thompson now owns a fine farm of
about 400 acres.  While a young man, at the raising of a mill frame,
he injured his back in an heroic and successful effort to prevent the
timbers falling upon his companions.  He never fully recovered from
this injury, which, with exposure and hard work, has caused him to be
confined to his bed with spinal meningitis.  In politics he votes the
republican ticket.  He has served the town as supervisor, clerk,
treasurer and assessor.  He is a member of the G. A. R. and Masonic
orders and is a courteous gentleman and an exemplary citizen.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 722-723.


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