"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
PAGE 241
JAMES O. THOMPSON is the son of Jonathan H. and Elizabeth E. (Latta)
Thompson, who were born and married in North Carolina, and there, in the
county of Orange, on August 11, 1839, the subject of this sketch first saw
the light of day. The family came to Indian in the year 1845, and for the
next two years lived about four miles west of Mooresville, when they removed
to Tipton County, where a change of county lines subsequently placed them in
Howard County, and here they lived up to the year 1867. Returning thence to
Morgan County, they lived again two years upon their old homestead, when
they removed to Mooresville, and the firm of J. H. Thompson & Son, dry goods
merchants, first became known to the business world. The father, Jonathan
H., was a highly respected and enterprising citizen of both the town and
county. He died February 5, 1874, ages sixty-seven years. Prior to 1869,
J. O. Thompson lived upon a farm, and his education was the best possible to
his circumstances and surroundings. December 20, 1866, he was married, in
Howard County, Ind., to Gulic E., daughter of Jonathan Lee, Esq., and by her
had born to him five children--William L., two infants not named, Gulic and
Ella, the four last all dying in infancy. The mother of these children
having died, our subject was married, May 14, 1874, at Irvington, Ind., to
Melissa R. Ritter, who has borne him three children--Ralph R., Harry H., and
Clyde C. (deceased in infancy). Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Honor.
He was elected Trustee of Brown Township in 1876, and held the office two
terms. As a business man, he is enterprising and successful, and as a
politician, an active Republican.
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