Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . -adding new ones, as thedemands increase. He is Vice-President of theMechanicsburg & Buffalo Railroad, in the stock ofwhich he and his brothers own a controlling in-terest. Mr. Thompson one of the principal instru-ments in securing the above-named medium of. ^^^ A^, —^^^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 441 travel, and here, as elsewhere, he makes his influ-ence felt, iniproviniT the line anil increasing its fa-cilities for traffic and transportation. Mr. Thomp-son has been connected with the civil affairs of thetowns
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . -adding new ones, as thedemands increase. He is Vice-President of theMechanicsburg & Buffalo Railroad, in the stock ofwhich he and his brothers own a controlling in-terest. Mr. Thompson one of the principal instru-ments in securing the above-named medium of. ^^^ A^, —^^^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 441 travel, and here, as elsewhere, he makes his influ-ence felt, iniproviniT the line anil increasing its fa-cilities for traffic and transportation. Mr. Thomp-son has been connected with the civil affairs of thetownship as Supervisor and with educational mat-ters as School Director or Trustee for many religious membership is in the Church ofChrist and he is an earnest worker in the Gospelfield. Whatever he takes an interest in is pushedforward with zeal, and although he is becoming ad-vanced in years, he still makes his iulluence felt inthe various departments of life. In 1844 Jlr. Thompson vvas married to RFary , a native of Bureau County, K3. Sometimeafter the lass of that companion he won for hiswife Mary A. Patton, a native of Pike County,Mo.,their marriage rites being celebrated in 1857. Oneson survives as the fruit of this union. This isEdward P., a business man of IMechanicsbnrg, whomarried Emma Huff,
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