The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . ent ofCaptain Salters farm in Barnstead. In1836 he purchased the farm adjoiningthe homesteadwhere his boy-hood had beenspent, where helived until hisdeath, Dec. He mar-ried, first, Ly-dia Sanborn ofGilford, a sisterof the late Sanbornof Laconia, bywhom he hadten children,among them be-ing Albert G.,at one timelandlord of theWillard Hotelin Laconia, forabout threeyears, and latersteward of theFifth A v enueHotel in NewYork city, fromits opening Ju
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . ent ofCaptain Salters farm in Barnstead. In1836 he purchased the farm adjoiningthe homesteadwhere his boy-hood had beenspent, where helived until hisdeath, Dec. He mar-ried, first, Ly-dia Sanborn ofGilford, a sisterof the late Sanbornof Laconia, bywhom he hadten children,among them be-ing Albert G.,at one timelandlord of theWillard Hotelin Laconia, forabout threeyears, and latersteward of theFifth A v enueHotel in NewYork city, fromits opening July15, 1859, to his death August 12, son was John S. Thompson, atone time connected with the Cerro Gor-do and the Willard hotels in Laconia,the Pemigewasset Hotel at Plymouth, theProctor House at Andover, and the Phe-nix at Concord ; he was also a deputy un-der Sheriff Hanson Bedee from May 31,1862, to the end of the term, January,1866. Asa T., another son, was a mem-ber of Co. A, Twelfth regiment, X. in the Civil War, and station-agent at Alton from the time of hisreturn from the array in 186^ to the. Edwin P. Thompson. spring of 1S72. Another son, WilliamI!. Thompson, was the father of the sub-ject of this sketch, who was born in Gil-manton. July 28, [852, his mother beingLuezer J. Thompson. Edwin I. wasthe eldest child and has one brother,Albert W. Thompson of Concord. He spent his early years on the farmin Gilmanton and attended the districtschools near his home, and later Gil-manton academy. At the age of twenty,in September, 1S72, he commenced thestudy of la wwith I of Gil-in a n ton. withwhom he stud-ied three years,and in Novem-ber, 1875, cameto Laconia andstudied with Jewell untilhis admissio nto the BelknapCount y b a r,April 1, 1876,when he imme-diately returnedto GilmantonIron Works andcommenced thepractice of hisprofession incompany w i t hColonel Cogs-well, with whomhe remained fora year and thenpractised aloneuntil
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