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Born 1836
From History of Greene county, Missouri, ... including a history of its township, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri ... biographical sketches and portraits of prominent cit (1883)
JACOB R. D. THOMPSON.
This gentleman is the son of Edward M. and Elizabeth (Dollison) Thompson, and was born July 12, 1836. His father was a native of Maryland and his mother of Kentucky, His father was among the very first settlers, coming to this county in 1829, where he died in 1851. Jacob R. D. Thompson grew to manhood in the county and has always followed farming and stock rearing. He has a fine farm of two hundred and twenty acres, all but sixty of which he acquired by his own industry and energy. He was married in 1866 to Miss Eliza, daughter of Junius T. and Mary A. (Blackwell) Campbell, who were among the early settlers of Greene. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson where best with three children, Mary J., James C. and Elizabeth A.
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