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Michigan Jackson
In 1866 the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad Company bought that part of the Lansing, Amboy and Traverse Bay Railroad lying between Owosso and Lansing, and with it the land grant made by the United States to the latter company. This purchase gave much greater value to the stock of the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad Company.
Mr. Thompson is noted for his broad and comprehensive business views. Many enterprises which have added much to the growth and prosperity of Jackson owe their success to the fearless manner in which he in some cases invested his capital, and in others sustained those who were interested in building them up. He is one of the firm of Bennett, Knickerbocker & Co., who built and still own and run the extensive steam flouring mill known as the " City mills." The same firm also own and run the "Stone mills" at Albion, and is one of the largest manufacturers of flour in the state. Mr. Thompson is one of the principal stockholders in the " George T. Smith Middlings Purifier Manufacturing Company," now extensively engaged in the manufacture of their " purifiers " in Jackson. He is also largely interested in the costly " Chemical works " and " Pulp mills " located in the northern part of the city, and he has aided to develop, and is one of the proprietors of coal mines now worked within the city limits. But it is as a banker that Mr. Thompson is most widely and favorably known. No man in Michigan enjoys a higher reputation in his particular calling than does the subject of this sketch. The business men of Jackson look to him and rely upon him in time of need; and to him his customers never look in vain for those accommodations often so necessary to success in their business.
Jackson
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