Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

H.C. THOMPSON was born Aug. 6, 1848, in Virginia, Cass County,
and is the third son of N. B. Thompson, now of St. Louis, Mo.,
and for many years one of the foremost and successful business
men of Cass County.  He first came to Virginia as Clerk and
Recorder of Cass County, upon the first removal of the county
seat from Beardstown, and was the first Clerk of the county,
receiving his appointment from Judge Jesse B. Thomas, the first
County Judge.  He commenced merchandising in Virginia and
continued until the year 1867, when he removed to St. Louis,
where he lives in retirement.  He was married March 30, 1837, to
Miss Louise Dutch, daughter of Israel J. Dutch, of Morgan County.
He was a native of Massachusetts; married Miss Caroline C.
Thorington, of New York City.  He is of French descent, and Mrs.
Dutch of English.  Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have raised a large
family, all of whom are still living in independence, being
successful in their several undertakings, and, as will be seen
from the following, are filling honorable positions, both of
business and professional nature.  Louise A., wife of Abram
Bergen, a prosperous lawyer, of the State of Kansas; Josephine
married John Anderson, a farmer of Saint Clair County, of this
State; Eliza, wife of Mr. G. Polland, an able attorney of St.
Louis, Mo.; the Honorable W. B. Thompson is also an attorney of
Saint Louis, Mo., and represented the Twenty-eighth Senatorial
district of that State in the Forty-sixth General Assembly; L. C.
Thompson is a merchant of Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill.;
Harry C., our subject, is a thrifty farmer and a stock-dealer, of
Cass County; he married Miss Lila Hall, daughter of Robert Hall,
one of the wealthiest and extensive agriculturists of Cass
County, of whom see sketch in another chapter of this work; Harry
C. is an enterprising, public spirited and go-ahead man of
business, and quick to see the business bent of a transaction. 
Mr. Thompson is the oldest of his father's family, and was born
Oct. 14, 1861; Mary, wife of Mr. J. A. Johnston, head salesman
for Mermod, Jaccard & Co., No.  4 Locust St., St. Louis; Frank P.
is a resident of Cass County, Mo.; George D. is a physician and
surgeon at the Marine Hospital, St. Louis; and Ella B. is at home
with her parents, in St. Louis.  The Thompson property interests
in Cass County and Virginia are large, and as yet have not been
divided.

Thompson Thomas Dutch Thorington Bergen Anderson Polland Hall
Johnston, 
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