Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

ROBERT ALEXANDER THOMSON was born in Woodford County, Ky., August 22, 1828,
and is the only child of David and Eliza (Beaty) Thomson, native of
Woodford and Scott Counties, respectively.  His grandfather, David Thomson,
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war from Louisa County, Va., and
immigrated to Woodford County, Ky., about 1790, settling on Glen's Creek,
where R. A. Thomson was born, as was also his father, David Thomson, a
farmer and stock raiser, born in 1795 and died in 1872.  Robert A. Thomson
entered Georgetown College at fifteen, and remained there two years.  He
then entered the Kentucky Military School, from which he graduated in
1847.  In 1853 he removed from the farm in Woodford County to Frankfort
having previously read medicine under Dr. Joseph Carter.  He also
studied law under Gov. Porter of Versailles, about eighteen months, and
graduated in medicine at the Louisville Medical School.  In 1861 he
enlisted in Company E, Fourth Kentucky Regiment of Infantry, Confederate
States Army, in which he remained until the close of the war, when he
received the commission of captain.  He was seriously wounded at the
battle of Stone River.  In 1869 he was elected doorkeeper of the House of
Representatives, and in 1872 was elected sergeant-at-arms of the same
body.  In 1870 he was elected county judge, and has held the office
since; his present term expires in 1889.  He married, January 16, 1851,
Miss Lavinia Wingate, of Franklin County, a daughter of Isaac Wingate,
deceased, and has three children: Worden C., born December 12, 1852;
George B., born March 27, 1856; Wingate, born in April 1860.  He has
been a Mason since the age of twenty-one.

Thomson Beaty Carter Porter Wingate
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Woodford-KY Scott-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY Louisa-VA

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