Newton Co., IN Biography

   GEORGE W. THOMPSON is a native of Warren County, Indiana, and was 
born September 12, 1851, being the second of four children of Young 
and Catharine (Magee) Thompson, both natives of Ohio. Young Thompson, 
when a boy, came with his parents to Warren County, Indiana, where he 
grew to manhood, was married and located on the farm now owned by John 
Deardurff, where he lived until his death while in the army at St. 
Louis, Missouri, in August, 1862; his wife still lives on the same 
farm.  George W. received his early education in the common schools 
of Newton and Warren Counties, and afterward attended Westfield 
College at Westfield, Illinois, also the Normal School at Danville, 
Indiana; he remained at home until twenty-one, then taught school in 
Newton County, for two years, after which he bought the farm now owned 
by W. B. Plummer, which he owned five years, then purchased the sixty 
acres upon which he now resides; he also teaches in winter.  Mr. 
Thompson was married, August 13, 1879, to Elsa Jessen, a native of 
Newton County, and daughter of James and Mary A. (Hill) Jessen.  
They have one child, Daisy Bell, born May 15, 1880.  Mr. Thompson is 
a Republican in politics, and one of the respected teachers of the 
county.  

Beaver Township, Newton County.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883. 

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