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By this wise course of action they have most Ĥeffectually promoted their own interest, for they have added to their estate, not only by their success in their several pursuits, but also very largely by the appreciation of real estate, caused by the growth of the city, arising from the liberal and comprehensive course pursued in promoting the building of railroads, opening of coal mines, and numerous other enterprises, which have promoted the prosperity of Jackson. Jackson, Mich., February, 1878.
WILLIAM D. THOMPSON, BANKER, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN, By M. Shoemaker.
William Doliville Thompson was born February 24th, 1815, and is a native of Chenango county, New York. He removed to LeRoy, in Genesee county, when quite young, and continued to reside there until 1831.
The great stream of emigration from New England and New York, to Michigan and the then far west which set in about 1830, caught in its 'flow many of the most industrious and enterprising of the young men of those states, who sought in these then unoccupied fields a proper sphere for their labors, and for the expansion of that spirit of enterprise which was denied to them in the more densely populated regions of the east. This was more especially the case with those young men who had only their willing hands and strong hearts with which to carve their way in the world to wealth or fame.
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