Anton Thompson

As printed in 1916

ANTON THOMPSON.

Anton Thompson, a prosperous attorney and the present county attorney of Otter Tail county, is a native of this county, where he was born on February 8, 1870, son of Bernt and Enga (Goldseath) Thompson, natives of Norway and farming in Dane Prairie township, this county. Anton Thompson was reared on a farm in Dane Prairie township, and obtained his elementary education in the district schools of the township.

When Mr. Thompson was fifteen years old, he entered the seminary at Wilmar, Minnesota, and was later graduated from that institution. After teaching school for five years successfully in Otter Tail county. Mr. Thompson entered the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, in [896, and three years later was graduated from the law department with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The year following his graduation, he engaged in the practice of his profession at Henning. Mr. Thompson still retains his office at Henning, although in [908 he formed a partnership with Clifford L. Hilton, under the firm name of Hilton & Thompson, and lias since been in the practice of law at Fergus Falls.

Having been elected as county attorney of Otter Tail county in 1908, Mr. Thompson has held the office continuously for the past seven years. He has proved to be a very capable and trustworthy counselor of the law

As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.