Alexander
Thompson, farmer, sec. 14, Green Tp., was born in Scotland, July 28, 1814, and is a son of
John and Jeannette (Tweedel) Thompson, natives of "Auld Scotia, " where they lived and died,--the
father in 1816, when the son was but two years old. Mr. Thompson remained home
with his mother until he was 34 years old, occupied with the business of cloth-making. He came to the American continent in 1848, landed at
New York, then went to Gault, Can. He returned to the "States" at the end of the year and located at Mercer Co., Pa., where he founded
employment at his trade. He worked there 18 months, then went to the factories of Indianapolis, where he remained four years. In the fall
of 1854, he went back to Scotland and was there employed as a weaver.
In 1858 Mr. Thompson was married to
Agnes, daughter of James and
Margaret (Richmond) Morton, who was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, Nov.
21, 1825. Her parents were natives of that place, and there lie buried. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have had four children;
John, born April 12, 1859; James
M., March 21, 1861; Margaret M., Jan. 18, 1863; (now
Mrs. John Lord); Jeannette, June 21, 1867, died May 19, 1882.
Early in the fall of 1861, Mr.
Thompson, with his wife and two children, sailed for the United States. They landed at New York and
then went to Trumbull Co., Ohio, where he followed his occupation until the spring of 1868, when he came to Mecosta County. He located
at once upon a farm containing 160 acres of land. Forty acres of his original tract are now under cultivation. Mr. Thompson is a Republican
of the most faithful type.
from
Portrait and Biographical Album of Mecosta County, Michigan.
Submitted by Sharon K. Merrin.
