The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . He waseducated in thepublic schools of his native town and at Newmarket, possessed of a son and two daughters,N. H., closing his school days at the all of whom are married. He came toCartland academy, Lee, N. H., under this city from Newmarket in May, 1882,the tutorship of that well-known, practi- having secured a situation as city editorcal educator, Moses A. Cartland. on the Belknap Daily Tocsin, the first Both on the paternal and maternal daily newspaper to be
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . He waseducated in thepublic schools of his native town and at Newmarket, possessed of a son and two daughters,N. H., closing his school days at the all of whom are married. He came toCartland academy, Lee, N. H., under this city from Newmarket in May, 1882,the tutorship of that well-known, practi- having secured a situation as city editorcal educator, Moses A. Cartland. on the Belknap Daily Tocsin, the first Both on the paternal and maternal daily newspaper to be established insides Judge Thompsons ancestry were Laconia. Since, from time to time, heRevolutionary stock, both of his great has been employed in every newspapergrandfathers serving side by side in the office in the city. During the pastWar of the Revolution at Bunker Hill, dozen years he has also acted as localHis paternal ancestry were Scotch-Irish, correspondent for the Boston Globe,while those of his mother were English, and Manchester Union for severalHer less remote ancestry were the Lord years. May n, 1897, he was ap-. Judge True W. Thompson. nearly threeand a halfyears. He nev-er made appli-cation to be ad-mitted to thebar, preferringto take journal-ism as a profes-sion, he havingbeen engagedin that callingto some extentfor about fifteenyears previous,and for whichhe still retaineda great is one ofa family of twosons and adaughter ; thelatter resides atConcord, N. Thomp-son is not mar-ried, although TIIK ILLUSTRATED LACOMAN. 117 pointed associate justice of the Laconiapolice court by Governor Ramsdell. Atthe biennial election in [898, he waselected register of probate for Belknapcounty for a term of two years. Inpolitics he is an ardent Republican,having held the position of president ofthe Republican club in Ward 4 sincethe city was incorporated in 1893. Judge Thompson is widely and favor-ably known as a newspaper man. Dur-ing all the years of his e
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