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JESSE P. THOMPSON, farmer, P. O. Hamersville, was born in Pennsylvania February 19, 1806. He is the son of John and Margaret (Mitchell) Thompson, natives of Pennsylvania, he of Irish, and she of Welsh descent. Our subject revived a limited education in the subscription schools of Adams County, Ohio, and remained on the farm until eighteen years of age, when he commenced learning the wagon maker’s trade, at which he worked twenty years. He carried on a shop in Clark Township this county, for several years, and throughout his business career was characterized by his honest dealings with his patrons. When he came to this township he settled on 100 acres of heavy timbered land that was willed to him by his father. He was married in 1829 to Matilda Lawrence, a daughter of Jacob Lawrence, of Adams County. She was a school-mate of our subject’s, and he thought in his school days that he would marry her, but did not tell of it until after they were married, when she confessed to having thought the same thing. Their union was blest with these children — Christine, Barbara Ann (wife of S. H. Ellis), Thomas H. B. (a farmer of Kentucky), John L., Milton, Sarah E. (wife of Samuel Williams), James and Semantha (wife of Henry Snider). Mrs. Thompson died in 1878, in the full faith of the Methodist Church, in which her husband is a local preacher. He is a Republican, and has held most of the offices in the township. He is the owner of a farm of 140 acres upon which he lives.