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Note: John graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in agriculture. John was a college professor at Clemson University, Clemson,
SC. Later he became an editor of top agricultural papers including
Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead.
1900 census Greensboro, Guilford, NC, ED 57 sheet 12 A Martin St.
John Thompson, head, May 1870, 30, married 5 yrs, b. Germany, parents
b. Germany emigrate 1880, in US 20 yrs, Naturalized, Teacher, A&M College, literate rent house Carrie B, wife, Sep 1869, 30, married 5 yrs, 2 children, both living, b Germany,
parents, b. Germany, emigrate 1883, 17 yrs in US, naturalized, literate
Hugh W, son, Jun 1896, 3, b SC
Emmie, dau, Feb 1898, 2, b SC
[ I wonder where they got the birth place for Carrie?]
If emigration date is correct then John would have come over when he was 10 so probably came with his family. Even 1885 date from 1930 census would still mean probably came with family. Need to look for naturalization and immigration date...
Grandma Rice always said he came alone though.
1910 Census 7th Ward, Souix City, Woodbury, IA ED 210 sheet 3A
John Thomson, head, 40, widowed, b. Germany, father b. Denmark,
mother b. Germany, editor Farmers Tribune, rents a portion of the home at
1518 Fifth Ave, nothing filled in on immigration date. Hugh, son, 12, b. IA, attending school
John is living in the house of Jeanie B Fry who is the secretary of the YWCA and also widowed.
1920 Census Precinct 5 Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
John Thompson, roomer, 50, widowed, came to US 1882 naturalized 1894,
Germany, parents b Germany editor of newspaper living with John Wickham, 65 and wife Mollie, 61 along with their daughter
Madeline, 19 1925 Iowa Census Des Moines Ward 3, Polk, Iowa, image 763
1021 House Number John Thompson, head, 50, rents for $40, 29 years in US, 22 years in Iowa,
college education for 4 years Nina D, wife, 53, b. in Iowa, 2 years of college
Arthur W Dewey, step son, 12, b. Iowa, attending 7th grade
Mary E Wilson, sister in law, 70, b. Iowa, finished 4th grade in rural school,
can read and write 1930 Census Racine, Racine, WI District 28 page 626
John Thompson, head, rent $70, 59 married at 51, b northern Germany,
parents Germany, came to US 1885 naturalized, editor of farm paper
Nina, wife, 58, married at 32, b IA, father b IN, mother b OH
Arthur Dewey, step-son, 18, b IA
Ella Wilson, sister-in-law, 75, single, (never married), b IA
Sent for Saint Paul naturalization record films from FHL - not there
Obituary Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, IA) 18 Apr 1935 page 13
<b>John Thompson Taken by Death at Des Moines
</b>Des Moines - John Thompson, 65, widely known midwestern agriculturalist and associate editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, died in a hospital here Wednesday night of a cerebral hemorrhage induced by influenza.
The veteran editor had been ill at his home here for several weeks but had been in the hospital only 10 days. He died in his sleep following a stroke suffered Tuesday night.
Thompson was an authority on many phases of agriculture and a stanch supporter of scientific farming and land conservation. He suffered an attack of influenza while attending the international livestock show in Chicago and had been feeling sick ever since.
<b>Returns to Iowa </b> He was the editor of the Iowa Homestead from 1918 to 1930. In 1930 when the Homestead and Wallace's Farmer were merged he went to Racine, Wis., to become editor of the Wisconsin Agriculturist. After two years there he returned to Des Moines where he was an associate editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead.
Surviving are Mrs. Thompson, two daughter's Mrs. Emily Rice and Mrs. Irene Marquis, both of Sterling, Ill.; and two sons, Hugh of Fanwood, N.J., and Arthur Dewey, a graduate student at Cornell University in New York, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Saturday. Born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, September, 22, 1869, Thompson came to the United States when he was 16 years old. He worked his way through the University of Minnesota, and received the degree of bachelor of agriculture in the first class in agriculture graduated from the university.
<b>Here for 12 Years </b> His first wife, Carrie Bours Taylor, died in St Paul in 1902. He was married to Dr. Nina Wilson Dewey, Des Moines osteopath, in October, 1922.
Upon graduation from the University of Minnesota, Thompson taught in the University of Minnesota, at Clemson college, South Carolina and in Greensboro, N. C., before becoming an agricultural editor.
He was editor of the Farmer and Breeder, in Sioux City, for 12 years, and editor of the Farmer and Stockman, in Kansas City, two years, before coming to Des Moines.
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