THOMAS A. THOMPSON, carpenter and builder, Montfort; born in Canada near the Vermont line in 1840; his father died in Canada; his mother afterward married Mr. William Cook, and removed to Illinois about 1855; they came to Grant Co. about 1856, and settled in Clifton, where his mother still resides; her husband, Mr. Cook, was a soldier in the army during the rebellion, and died of disease contracted while in the service; Thomas is the only child of his mother living by her first husband; she has six children by her second husband. Thomas came to Grant Co. in 1868, from Plattesburg, N. Y. He was married to Jennie Row; has three children - Alymer, Frank and Albert S.; he learned his trade in Boston, where he worked about six years; his father was a native of Scotland, his mother of Canada.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.