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Born 1812
From History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881)
AMOS THOMPSON, farmer; P. 0. Hudson, is the son of Stephen Thompson, who came from Goshen, Conn., with his wife and three children, settling here in 1802. Amos was born in this township, Sept. 13, 1812. Throughout his whole life he has been a well-to-do farmer without any desire for notoriety in public life. He has been twice married; first in 1836, to Miss Laura Smith, of Randolph. By this union there were six children, three deceased and three living. Those surviving are Henry 0., Ada A. and Arthur N. Their mother was a native of the State of New York, and came here with her parents about two years previous to her marriage; she died Sept. 13, 1874. Mr. Thompson's second marriage was with Mrs. Lavina Sandford, widow of the late Peter Sandford, of Kent. The present Mrs. Thompson was twice married prior to her union with Mr. Thompson; she has one child, Emma Arrow, by her first husband, John Arrow.
As printed in History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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