Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: John R. Thomson ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, December 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1164 Dr. John R. Thomson, First Assistant Superintendent of the Northern Hospital for the Insane, was born in Northumberland, England, July 20, 1845. His parents came to United States in 1847 and located in New York City. The subject of this sketch received a common-school education in New York, and, in 1857, he went to Scotland, where he remained until 1861, pursuing his classical studies. On his return to the United States, he engaged in the drug business in New York City. In 1869, he entered Columbia College and graduated in 1872; was then surgeon on an Atlantic steamer for a short time; after practicing medicine in New York about one year, and in Colorado some three years, he then took a position in the Northern Hospital for the Insane. He was married in Appleton, Wis., May, 1880, to Miss Annie Galpin; they have one child- Georgianna. Dr. Thomson is a member of the A., F. & A. M. Lodge and Chapter.