Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . of Mil ford C,was born in Mansfield, Conn., March 31, 1812, wasa son of Horace and Sophia (Dunham) Thomp-son, and was by trade a carpenter. Horace Thomp-son, Sr., also a native of Mansfield, was likewise acarpenter and contractor, was the father of ten chil-dren, and died about 1863, at the age of seventy-six years. Llorace, Jr., worked at his trade inAndover, Coventry, Mansfield, and Columbia, partof the time
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . of Mil ford C,was born in Mansfield, Conn., March 31, 1812, wasa son of Horace and Sophia (Dunham) Thomp-son, and was by trade a carpenter. Horace Thomp-son, Sr., also a native of Mansfield, was likewise acarpenter and contractor, was the father of ten chil-dren, and died about 1863, at the age of seventy-six years. Llorace, Jr., worked at his trade inAndover, Coventry, Mansfield, and Columbia, partof the time as a journeyman. In politics he was aDemocrat, and in religion a Baptist, but as to theformer he cared but little. He first married, in 1837,Caroline P. Thompson, a native of Willimantic,and to this marriage came the following children:Milford C, the subject of these lines; Collins V.,born Aug. 2, 1841, served with the Sixteenth C. , in the Civil war, and is now living in the West;Rienzi W., born July 5, 1843, 1S aso a resident ofthe West; Alfred C. and Albert C. (twins) wereborn Sept. 2, 1844, the former of whom is living inGlastonbury, the latter in Providence. The mother. A/ Sv? c/^<zn*^^^z^0\ COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 729 of these children died April 9, 1863, and her re-mains were interred in Willimantic. The secondmarriage of Horace Thompson, Jr., was with SarahGrover, a widow who lives in VVethersfield with herson Myron Thompson, who was born in October,1876. The father, Horace Thompson, Jr., diedAug. ty, 1883 (the same day that President Gar-field expired), and his remains are interred in EastHartford. Milford C. Thompson was but a year old whenhis parents removed from Windham to Columbia,and at the latter place he attended school until seven-teen years old. Meanwhile he had learned the car-l/enters trade, under his father, and after quittingschool went to the Willimantic Linen Co.; in thespring commenced work as a carpenter for the samecompany, and so c
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