History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 144

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1340


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LEWIS H. TEARS, Troy, was born in Troy township, this county, May 6, 1832, the eldest son of Benjamin S. and Mattie (Lamb) Tears. His paternal grandfather, Isaac Tears, a native of Orange county, N. Y., settled in Troy township about 1820, cleared and improved a farm and resided in the township till his death. He was twice married,


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his first wife being Mary Tidd, and his second wife, Betsey Hammond. He reared a large family and was one of the founders of the Presby- terian Church in Troy. Benjamin S. Tears, who was the eldest child by the second marriage, in early life followed farming and teaching, and was for some years engaged in the mercantile business in LeRoy, was a deacon in the Baptist Church, and died in Troy in 1886, aged seventy-six years. His first wife, Mattie, was a daughter, of James and Sarah (Oaks) Lamb (natives of Scotland and New England, respect- ively), who settled in Troy township in 1808 ; by her he had four chil- dren : Lewis H., David O. (killed in the Civil War), Truman H. and Mary R. (Mrs. James A. Hickok). His second wife was Elizabeth Coburn, of Susquehanna county, and by her he had three children : Miles, Isaac F. and Mary. Lewis H. Tears was reared in this county, educated in the common school and Troy Academy, and followed farming until twenty-five years of age. He then became a traveling salesman, which business he followed continuously for twenty years. Since 1886 he has been general agent, for New York and Pennsylvania, for the Sanford Whip Company, of Westfield, Mass. In 1856 he mar- ried Laura S., daughter of Walker and Laura (Strait) Pierce, of Troy township, and has by her two children : Alice E. (Mrs. George G. Beardsley) and Carrie M. (Mrs. E. B. Calkins).


W. I. TEED, dealer in groceries and notions, Sayre, is a native of Delaware county, and was born October 8, 1847, a son of David and Eunavilda (Brown) Teed, the former a native of Tompkins county, N. Y., and the latter of near Mt. Holyoke, Mass .; she is a descendant of one of the three Brown brothers who came from England to this country in an early day. David Teed is a farmer and resides in Delaware county, N. Y. W. I. Teed, who is the sixth in a family of seven children, received an academic education in his native place, and was graduated at Eastman's Commercial College; then he taught three terms, and clerked in a store about one year; then bought the business out after entering into a partnership with another gentleman, remaining there in business for nearly fifteen years; the business con- sisted of general dry goods and groceries; then came to Sayre, in March, 1884, and engaged in the grocery and notion trade, and has continued in same since. He was married in Delaware county, N. Y., in 1867, to Miss Alice, daughter of Philip and Harriet (Pratt) Utley, natives of Cooperstown, N. Y .; she is the youngest in a family of eight children, and was born near Cooperstown, N. Y., in July, 1847. To this union were born four children, as follows: Edwin W., Utley, Leon and Luvern. Mr. Teed is a member of the Fraternal Alliance and Fra- ternal Guardians. and is a Republican.


HUGH TEMPLETON, farmer, Smithfield township, P. O. Ulster, was born in the parish of Dunlap, Ayrshire, Scotland, December 19, 1814, near the birthplace of Robert Burns, and is a son of Robert and Jane (Smith) Templeton, and his father was a manufacturer of linen lint from the raw flax. Mr. Templeton was the tenth in a family of eleven children, and came to this country in 1841, when twenty-six years of age. On the same ship was Marion Ritchie, whom he married in November, 1843. She was born .in Mauchline Parish (which is also


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in Ayrshire, Scotland), in 1812, one of a family of six. Mr. and Mrs. Templeton have had six children, of whom the following areliving: Ella, born July 18, 1846, married to Huston Mckinney; Mary Jane, born July 20, 1848, married to E. P. Lenox; Robert, born May 18, 1850, married to Deliah Rosengrant; Marion, born April 8, 1852, married to Alonzo Rose. Robert, the only son, lives on the farm with his father, and has one son, Herbert P., born August 8, 1882. The family are Democratic in politics ; they are successful farmers, having come here when the country was new, and have experienced all the privations of the pioneer. Mr. Templeton is a pleasant and honorable neighbor, and is respected by the whole community.


JAMES TERRY, justice of the peace, Evergreen, was born in Standing Stone township, this county, December 2, 1838, a son of John and Catherine (Betts) Terry, the former of whom, a mason by trade and a farmer, was born near Leeds, England, and came to America when about thirty years of age, settling in Bradford county about 1835 ; the mother was a native of Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y. (her father, Erastus Betts, was a soldier of the War of 1812, and a pen- sioner). Our subject and two brothers were in the Civil War ; he (James) enlisted in the first company that left the county in April, 1861, at the first call for troops ; re-enlisted March 8, 1862, in Com- pany D, Eighth United States Infantry, in which he remained one year and four months, and again re-enlisted in March, 1864, in Battery C, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, in which he was a sergeant ; was discharged in January, 1866, and assigned to the Freedman's Bureau, his appointment being in the detective service in Surrey and Sussex counties, Va. At the close of the services he settled at Ever- green, in Albany township, where he has since been continually in political office ; was a school director and a constable; then assessor, eleven terms ; is a Republican and has served the people faithfully ; is now justice of the peace, which position he has held four terms, and has also an extensive law practice; in the fall of 1890 he was a can- didate for the Legislature ; is a member of the G. A. R. and of the F. & A. M. Mr. Terry was married, December 15, 1858, to Roxanna Carter, of Susquehanna county, Pa., and there have been born to them three children, as follows : Addie L., Alfred H. and Draper T. Mr. Terry is a man of activity, respected by a large circle of friends.


A. H. THOMAS, farmer, P. O. Troy, was born September 9, 1829, in Troy township, this county, on the farm where he now resides, and is a son of Alvin W. and Amy (Harding) Thomas. His paternal grandparents were Jacob and Susannah (Rowley) Thomas, natives of New Hampshire and Vermont, respectively, who settled in Troy town- ship in 1808, locating on the farm occupied by subject, where they made an improvement, and about 1820 removed to the farm now owned by W. A. Thomas, and there died ; they had a family of eight children who grew to maturity ; Zeruah (Mrs. Samuel Case), Alvin W. Samnel, Hiram, Chester, Allen, Lucy M. (Mrs. Dummer Lilley) and William A. Of these, Alvin W. was a native of Vermont, and chiefly cleared and improved the farm now owned and occupied by subject, and died there ; his wife was a daughter of Samuel and Love (Mayhew)


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Harding, of Sullivan, Tioga Co., Pa., and by her he had nine children: Lorenzo, Alex H., Charles B. (killed at battle of Fredericksburg in the Civil War), Lucy M. (Mrs. E. D. Thomas), Susan (Mrs. Edwin M. Slade), Julia (Mrs. Newton McClelland), Alvin W., Jr. (a soldier in Civil War, and died at Camp Hamilton), Emma (Mrs. John Lilley) and Jacob. A. H. Thomas was reared in Troy township, has spent his life in farm- ing in that and Canton township, and has permanently resided on the old homestead since 1870. In 1850 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John S. and Hannah (Kiff) Becker, of Armenia township, and has six children : Adolphus E., Bolivar P., Henry, Eugenia (Mrs. Milton A. Case), Alvin and Meade. Mr. Thomas is a representative farmer of Troy township; is one of the charter members of the Troy Farmers' Club, was its first president after charter was obtained, and served in that capacity fourteen years ; politically he is a Democrat.


HIRAM W. THOMAS, farmer, Troy township, P. O. Granville Summit, was born in Troy township, this county, January 28, 1838, a son of Samuel and Lydia P. (Wright) Thomas; his paternal grand- parents were Jacob and Susannah (Rowley) Thomas, natives of New Hampshire and Vermont, respectively, who settled in Troy township in 1808, locating on the farm now occupied by A. H. Thomas, and, about 1820, on the farm now owned by William A. Thomas, and died there. Samuel Thomas, father of the subject of the sketch, is one of the oldest residents of Troy township, and cleared and improved the farm where he now resides ; his wife was a daughter of Jerome Wright, of Canton township, by whom he had nine children, as follows : John C., Mary J. (Mrs. William Vanderlip); Lydia S. (Mrs. John C. May); Hiram W., C. Ellen (Mrs. Ephiram M. Clark), Fidelia A. (Mrs. Burton A. Porter), William H. H. (who died a prisoner at Andersonville dur- ing the Civil War), David W. and Martha A. (Mrs. Thomas M. Scott). Hiram W. Thomas was reared in Troy township, where he has nearly always resided, and cleared and improved the farm he now occupies. He married, June 1, 1862, Mary J., daughter of David H. and Sarah (Place) Duart, who settled in Canton township in 1841; the issue of this union is one daughter, Sarah A. (Mrs. Russell H. Coe). Mr. Thomas was in the Civil War, having enlisted September 3, 1864, in Company K, Fifteenth New York Engineer Volunteers, and was hon- orably discharged, June 13, 1865; both he and his wife are members of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and in politics he is a Republican.


JOHN W. THOMAS, fariner, of Athens township, P. O. Wilawana, was born in Barton, Tioga Co., N. Y., August 10, 1823, a son of Isaac and Drucilla (Morris) Thomas, the former born in New Jersey, the latter in Albany, N. Y. Isaac Thomas, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, removed to Albany about 1821, but soon after went to Tioga county, where he remained eight years; then moved to Athens town- ship and resided there seven years; returning to Tioga county. N. Y., he here made his home until his death, which occurred while he was on a visit to New Jersey ; his children were five in number-two sons and three daughters-four of whom are now living, and are now all settled in sight of one another. John W., who is the eldest in the family, was reared and educated in Athens township, and always


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followed farming. On March 8, 1851, he married Jane, daughter of Abraham and Ellenor Mills, and by this marriage there were two children : John (deceased) and Rilla, married to Wilson, a farmer. Mr. Thomas purchased his farm in 1847, adding acre after acre, until he now owns 125 acres of well-improved and fertile land, lying on the northwest corner of Athens township, all of which he accumulated by industry and economy. He is a general farmer, and raises some tobacco along the Chemung. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and votes the Democratic ticket.


MORGAN THOMAS, carpenter and joiner, P. O. Neath, was born July 4, 1844, in Susquehanna county, Pa., and is a son of David and Ann (Jones) Thomas, natives of South Wales. In his father's family there were eight children, of whom Morgan is the sixth. He spent his early boyhood on the farm, and in attending district school; at twenty-one he began to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he has been employed since, except 1873-85, when he was engaged in mercan- tile business at Neath. He married Esther, daughter of Newton and Catherine (Davis) Humphrey, and they have two children living: Jessie C. and George N. Mr. Thomas is a member of the F. & A. M. at LeRaysville, and is a Republican.


NEWTON HUMPHREY, blacksmith, residing with his son-in-law, Morgan Thomas, was born in Pike township, October 22, 1820; he has been postmaster at Neath twenty years, and justice of the peace eleven years ; his parents were Dudly Case and Almira (Gorham) Hum- phrey. natives of Connecticut, who settled in Pike township as early as 1819, on the farm now owned by Davis Phillips.


THOMAS F. THOMAS, farmer and stockman, P. O. Warren Centre, was born in New York City, March 24, 1832, a son of Samuel and Mary Francis Thomas, natives of Wales. The father, who was a mechanic and farmer, came to this country in 1831, stopping for a time in the city of New York, and following year removed to Warren township, this county, where he improved the farm on which his son now resides, and where he died in 1863, his good wife following him to the grave in 1866; their children were three in number, viz .: Sarah (Mrs. Evan W. Davis), of Pike township; Rachel (Mrs. Washington Beeman), of same township (she had one child, and died in 1841), and Thomas F. The subject of these lines has spent his life in Warren township, and now owns 107 acres of finely improved and well culti- vated land. He was married in Iowa, May 19, 1865; to Mary Ann Canfield, a native of Warren township, daughter of Harvey and Abi- gail Estes Canfield, natives of Connecticut and New York, respectively, of English stock, farmers, who came to America in 1832, and located in Warren township, but in 1865 removed to Iowa, where they died, he in 1885, and she in 1866. In their family were nine children, Mrs. Thomas being the fourth. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have no children of their own, but have an adopted daughter, Abbie L., a daughter of Mrs. Thomas' sister, and now Mrs. William A. Beebe, residing in Warren township. Mr. Thomas is a Republican in politics.


REV. THOMAS THOMAS, Presbyterian minister, Stevensville, was born in Carmarthen, South Wales, June 16, 1812, a son of David


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and Hannah (Grilfis) Thomas, who with their six children came to America, in 1824, and located on a farm where Neath now is, then a dense forest. To make the solitude of the New World more gloomy than the forest shade could make it, six weeks after their arrival the husband and father died of sunstroke. Thomas, who was the fourth child, spent his boyhood with the rest of the family in making a home in the woods, and in attending the common school. He was graduated from Lafayette College in 1843, and spent two years in Princeton Theological Seminary. He then returned to Neath, where he preached successively at Rushville, Orwell, Friendsville, Orwell, Rushville and, in 1863, at Stevensville, where he has since resided, filling at the same time other small charges. Mr. Thomas was married, January 1, 1846, to Mary, daughter of William and Catharine (Howell) Evans, natives of South Wales. This happy union has been blessed with one son and four daughters: Harriett A., born August 10, 1847 (was educated in the common schools, the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, and was graduated at the High School of Marietta, Ohio, in 1866 ; she has taught and traveled considerably, having spent three years in southern Cali- fornia, and made two trips to Europe, to visit her sister, Mrs. F. R. Welles ; is at present living with her parents at Stevensville); Sarah C., born August 14, 1849 (educated in the common schools, Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, and Delaware Institute, at Franklin, N. Y., took French and Botanical lectures ; taught several years and was married, August 31, 1874, to Dr. Arthur H. Adams, whom she accompanied to Japan in October of the same year as a missionary. Mr. Adams was born at Sandusky, Ohio, October 26, 1847, was graduated at Yale College in 1867, being the fourth in a class of 110. After two years of teaching in the Delaware Literary Institute at Frank- lin, N. Y., he re-entered Yale, where he was graduated in The- ology and Medicine. He was located at Osaka, Japan, as missionary physician. In 1878 he went to southern California for his wife's health, and on returning to Japan died at sea of typhoid fever, and was buried at Kobe, Japan, in 1879. Mrs. Adams remained in Cali- fornia until 1882, when she returned to Stevensville. In 1888 she went to Antwerp, Belgium, and spent two years in Belgium and Italy; then returned to Stevensville, where she has since resided with her parents; she has one living child, Arthur H., born August 8, 1879) ; Welling E. (the only son of Mr. Thomas, was born January 25, 1852, educated in the common school, LeRaysville Academy, Delaware Literary Institute, and was graduated at Lafayette College in 1875. He taught one year, spent one year in the Union Theological Semi- nary in New York City, graduating from Princeton in 1879; he then preached at Eden and Ashley, Ohio, five years, residing at the latter place. He has since been located at Marion, Ohio, He married Emma W., daughter of Stephen and Mary (Lourie) Mattoon, natives of New York. The first seven years of her life were spent in Siam, her father being one of the first missionaries to that country. They have four children); Mary D. (Mr. Thomas' third daughter, was born May 11, 1854, was educated in the common school, Madame Corson's select school at Ithaca, N. Y., and the Susquehanna Collegiate Insti-


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tute, where she was graduated in 1874; she then attended the Elmira Female College one year; she is now living at Merryall, and is the wife of Rev. Milton L. Cook. They have six children) ; the youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas is Anna F. (born June 12, 1862, educated at the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, and was married, December 18, 1882, to F. R. Welles, superintendent of the European' works of the Western Electric Company. They are living at Paris, and have four children). The Thomas family are Presbyterians, and Mr. Thomas is a Prohibitionist.


BURLEIGH THOMPSON, farmer, P. O. Terrytown, was born April 25, 1858, and reared and educated on a farm. He is a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Hulbert) Thompson, the former of whom was a native of this county, the latter of Wyoming county. In his youth the father was a promising lad, and in his advanced years a good citizen. He lived with William Terry until he reached his majority. He was twice married: first time, March 1, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth Hulbert, by whom he had six children, three of whom are now living; his second marriage was on January 17, 1864. Mr. Thompson was a prosperous farmer, and left behind a mark of his industry in the beautiful home and surroundings his son now enjoys; he died February 8, 1891, at the age of seventy-three years; his wife was born September 4, 1820, and died January 18, 1863, aged forty-three years. Mr. Thompson enjoyed the full confidence of his friends, who elected him to the offices of auditor, collector and treasurer. The subject of this memoir is the youngest in the family, and has always confined himself to agricultural pursuits. On September 25, 1890, then at the age of thirty-two, he married, at Cooper's Plains, N. Y., Miss Eliza, daughter of Hon. Uriah and Louisa Terry. Like his father, Mr. Thompson is a prosperous farmer, and promises to make his mark in the world; he is a worthy and active member of the Baptist Church, and politically he is a Republican.


CHARLES C. THOMPSON, farmer, P. O. Bentley Creek, was born October 28, 1835, in South Creek township, this county, a son of William and Sophia (Houtz) Thompson, the former of whom was born in Ireland, and removed to America when sixteen years of age with his father, Harry Thompson ; first settled in Dryden, Tompkins Co., N.Y .; the mother was born in Harrisburg, Pa., of German parents; her father was a doctor and preacher. William Thompson removed to Bradford county in 1832, and settled in South Creek township, where he was a farmer; he was a politician, and a strong supporter of the Wesleyan Methodist Church ; he died at the age of eighty years, and his wife died aged ninety-two. Charles C. Thompson was reared on a farm, and has always followed the occupations of a farmer and car- penter. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Twenty-third N. Y. V. I., and served two years; was in several battles, among which were Antietam, South Mountain, Bull Run (second), and many other minor engagements. He was married, June 4, 1863, to Juliette Brown, of Ridgebury, who was born in Chemung county, N. Y., October 22, 1840, a daughter of Elijah M. and Lucetta (Burnham) Brown, both living with the daughter, the father now aged eighty-three years, the mother being eighty. Mr. Brown is a son of George Brown, a soldier of the


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Revolutionary War, was four years and eight months in the war, and was taken a prisoner once. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have had four chil- dren, as follows: Jud S., married to Lettica, daughter of Mckay Craig, of Bentley Creek; Jennie M., who died aged eight years; Leta D. and Vernie S. Mr. Thompson is a Republican, and an active worker in his party ; has been auditor, assessor and constable ; held several other offices of public trust; is also a member of the Knights of Honor ; is the owner of a fine farm, and is one of the most substantial farmers of the township.


CHARLES W. THOMPSON, farmer and stock-grower, Ulster township, P. O. Ulster, was born in Smithfield township, this county, April 7, 1829, the son of Palmer and Abigail (Goddard) Thompson, of whom the former was a native of New York State, and the latter of Connecticut; both of the grandfathers lost their lives by accident. The father died while the son was yet very young and the mother married Mr. Williams; she lived to the age of seventy-four years, and died in 1874. The father's family consisted of four children, Charles W., being the eldest ; L. E. in Smithfield ; E. L. in Tompkins county, N. Y. Charles was educated in the public schools, receiving a common-school education, and remained on the farm with his step-father until his majority; then worked by the month in a sawmill until twenty-nine years of age, when he bought the farm he now occupies in 1857, and now owns 130 acres of beautiful farm land, finely improved. Of the prominent farmers and dairyinen of this county, Mr. Thompson stands well toward the head of the list, and keeps a dairy of about twelve COWS. He was married, April 7, 1858, to Elmira E. Mallery, daughter of Chester and Perline (Shipman) Mallery, residents of Ulster, and the fruits of this marriage are two children : Alice (who married William Dennis, of Sayre) and Palmer C. Mr. Thompson is one of the old members of the National Grange. In political views he is a stanch Republican, and now holds the office of township assessor, which he has filled the past three years. He is one of the pioneer settlers of his neighborhood.


E. M. THOMPSON, miller, P. O. Waverly, is a native of Cortland county, N. Y., and was born October 2, 1843, a son of Samuel L. and Adelia (Eldridge) Thompson, natives, respectively, of Columbia and Schoharie counties, N. Y. The father was a boot and shoe maker, and died in Cortland, N. Y., in 1870, in his sixty-eighth year; the mother died in July, 1888, in her seventy-fifth year. E. M. Thompson, who is the eldest in a family of three children, was reared in Cortland, receiv- ing a common-school education, and at the age of eighteen began to learn the miller's trade at Blodgett's Mills, in Cortland county, N. Y., where he remained about three years ; then moved to Roseville, Tioga Co., Pa., and followed his trade about three years; thence went to Elmira, and was there about one year, when he proceeded to Ithaca, and after about one and one-half years he went from there to Dryden, Tompkins Co., N. Y., and was there about a year; thence moved to Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he remained nine years, and then went to Owego, but only remained there a few months, when he came to Sayre, April 20, 1876, and has had charge of the mill of


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Phillips & Curtis since about three months after he commenced work for the firm. In all of these places he worked at his trade. Mr. Thompson was married in Cortland county, N. Y., in 1866, to Miss Arvilla, daughter of Zera and Lucy (Chapman) Tanner, natives of Otsego county. Her father, who was a farmer, died in 1862 ; her mother survives. Mrs. Thompson is the youngest in the order of birth in a family of seven children, and was born in Cortland county, N. Y., October 5, 1844. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were born three chil- dren : Edward W., Ella and Lucy. The family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, at Sayre. Mr. Thompson is a mem- ber of the F. & A. M., Military Lodge, No. 93, Manlius, N. Y., and a member of the Knights of Honor, No. 293, Waverly. He is a Demo- crat, and served nine years as postmaster in Onondaga county, N. Y., and as school trustee two terms in the same county.


JOHN B. THOMPSON, foreman of wood shop, locomotive depart- ment, Sayre shops, P. O. South Waverly, is a native of Towanda township, this county, and was born February 15, 1837, a son of Elias and Hannah (McMicken) Thompson, natives of this county. The father was a miller, and died in Sheshequin, in 1857, in his forty- seventh year; the mother survives, and resides in South Waverly, and is in her eighty-second year. Grandfather Thompson was a soldier in the War of 1812. John B. Thompson is the only member living in a family of four boys. He moved to Sheshequin with his parents when seven years of age, received a common-school education, and attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, in 1854; then commenced the carpenter's trade, and also learned the miller's art, with his father. On April 14, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves, and some of the engagements he was in were with Mcclellan in the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Peninsular Campaign, and Bethesda Church, and was mustered out at Harrisburg, in June- 1864, then returned to Sheshequin, and went to work at the carpen, ter's trade, and worked until January, 1867, when he moved to South Waverly, where he worked three years in the steam flour mill, for Vanduzer, Hollet & Marsh; then went to work at the carpenter's trade for the L. V. R. R. Co., in 1870, and was promoted to his pres- ent position, that of foreman, in 1874. He was married in Waverly, November 28, 1867, to Miss Mary, daughter of Peter- and Bridget (Brown) Flood, natives of Ireland, whose family consisted of ten sons and two daughters, of whom she is the tenth, in order of birth, and was born at Milan, January 29, 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson had two children: Howard J., who died at the age of eight months, and May, who died at the age of seven years. Mrs. Thompson is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Thompson is a member of the F. & A. M., Waverly Lodge, No. 407; of the G.A. R., Walter C. Hull Post, No. 461, and of the Union Veteran League, No. 28; has served as first burgess in South Waverly borough, and is a Republican in politics.




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