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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
In 1832 he married Miss Clarinda Perry, by
whom he had two children, Susan and Rush.
Mrs. Thompson died June 4, 1840. For second
wife Mr. Thompson married, May 9, 1848, Miss
Ermina C. Wilson. There has been
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born to them one daughter, Clara C. In
politics Mr. Thompson was first a whig and
later a republican, and always took great
interest in political matters. He held at
times most of the township offices, and was
clerk for twenty years. He was a remarkable
man, of great originality of mind, and his
success in life shows what determined will
power and persevering industry can wring from
surrounding difficulties. In his youth, when
he was so eager to become a scholar, the
avenues which now open to nearly all were for
lack of means closed to him. But he improved
the opportunities he had, and his great love
of reading, aided by a retentive memory,
stored up much knowledge. Within a few years
he could repeat from recollection a large
number of pages from the Iliad of Homer. To a
man of such active brain and untiring energy,
it might be supposed to be peculiarly irksome
to be laid aside in the prime of life, bound
as it were to his chair for so many years. It
would not have been surprising if his spirit
of resolution had been crushed; but though he
felt his enforced inaction keenly, he was so
far from being disheartened, that when
friends came to see him he seldom alluded to
his suffering, but was ready to launch off
into political, educational, or any other
subject prominent before the public, and
discuss it with an intelligence which showed
he kept himself familiar with the progress of
all the current events of the day. To add to
his other afflictions, for a number of years
he could not hear any conversation, and could
only be mentally communicated with by
writing.
Michigan 1883
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