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Below is a family biography included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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LEWIS THOMPSON, merchant, New Harmony, was born November 28, 1840, in Clark Township, Brown Co., Ohio, and is a son of Lewis and Nancy (Brooks) Thompson. Subject’s father was born in Virginia in 1800, and died in Ohio, where he emigrated to in an early day, at the age of sixty-two. Lewis is the second child and second son of his father’s family, and was married in 1870 to Melissa Frazee. Lewis, at the age of twenty-three, began business for himself. He first engaged in huckstering, this he continued until 1871, being the year after his marriage, at which time he began in the dry goods and grocery business at New Harmony, where he has been very successful. He is Postmaster at New Harmony and has filled that position for ten years. He obtained a common school education. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of four children, all living — Nelson, Jesse, William H. and Toley.
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This family biography is one of 992 biographies included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published in 1883 by W. H. Beers & Co. For the complete description, click here: Brown County, Ohio History and Genealogy
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