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Born 1834
From The History of Warren County, Ohio (1882)
WILLIAM D. THOMPSON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 14, 1834; he was the son of John H. and Ann (McCarty) Thompson, she of German descent and he a native of New Jersey, of Irish descent; they settled in Warren County at an early day, where he went to farming, successfully following that occupation until his death, in 1876, at which time he had accumulated 303 acres of land. Of his children, seven reached their majority, and of these five are still living and all doing well. Our subject and his sister are living on the home place, where they occupy 121 acres; he had received an ordinary education, and then settled down on his father’s place, where he has since remained; he attends strictly to business, and, although a Republican, has always refused nomination or election to any office.
As printed in The History of Warren County, Ohio (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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