History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . armof four hundred acres lying in Elmwood and Elkton townships, his homenow being in the former township, is a native of Scotland, but has been aresident of this country since 1870 and of this part of Minnesota since has therefore been a witness to and a participant in the developmentof this region since pioneer days. He was Ijorn in the city of Montrose, animportant seaport town in Fo
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . armof four hundred acres lying in Elmwood and Elkton townships, his homenow being in the former township, is a native of Scotland, but has been aresident of this country since 1870 and of this part of Minnesota since has therefore been a witness to and a participant in the developmentof this region since pioneer days. He was Ijorn in the city of Montrose, animportant seaport town in Forfarshire, thirty-four miles southwest of Aber-deen, March 14. 1842, son of Dougal and Mary (Shand) Thompson, alsonatives of Scotland, the latter of whom spent her last days in her nati\eland; the former later coming to this country, his last days l)eing spent in?kIinnesota. Of the three children born to his parents, the subject of thissketch is tlie onlv survivor, his brother John having died at the age of four-teen vears, and his sister Mary, at the age of ten months. Dougal Thompson was a laborer in Montrose and was not in extra good THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENSXTILDEN Ml;s. ANN THOMPSON.
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