“History of Grant County, Wisconsin” W. C. Butterfield, 1881
published:  Chicago, IL:  Western Historical Society

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

TOWN OF WINGVILLE.

Page 998 

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 
Plattsburgh, 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.

Submitted by:  Sandy
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