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Continued: JOHN THOMPSON, proprietor of the Hamilton Avenue Hotel, at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, was born April 17, 1846, in a little mining village called Shotley Bridge, England, son of Thomas Thompson. The father of the subject was a native of county Durham, England, and with his wife and son John came to America in 1853, locating for a brief period at Temperance- ville (now West End), from which place they moved to Brown's Station, where he was in the employ of William H. Brown for several years. He next removed to Salineville, Ohio. He was the superintendent of copper mines for John Hays of Cleveland, Ohio, for fifteen years. He had followed coal mining before emigrating to this country. He married Jane Richardson, of Cassop Collery district, England. They had seven children, as follows:
i. John (subject), born April 17, 1846, of whom later. 2. Thomas, of Bridgeport, Ohio. 3. Ross, died aged two years.
4. Elizabeth, the widow of Robert Robson, who was a merchant in Duquesne for many years: he died in Pueblo, Colorado, where his widow still resides.
5. Mary, is the wife of Andrew Moffitt, a native of Scotland, and recently of Duquesne, Pennsylvania. 6. Dorothy, wife of Matthew Smith, of Scotch parentage: he is a blacksmith by trade, but follows mining and resides at Salineville, Ohio. 7. Margaret, wife of John Smith, of English parentage, of Salineville, Ohio. The father and mother of this family are both dead. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
John Thompson, eldest son of Thomas and Jane (Richardson) Thompson, was but about seven years of age when his parents came from England, in 1853. He first attended the public schools at Temperanceville and next in an old log school house at Brown's Station, but most of his education was obtained at Salineville, Ohio. After leaving school he commenced coal mining and was superintendent of the William J. Rainey's mines at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, and at Moyer, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in all fourteen years. In 1888 he moved to Duquesne, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in drilling artesian wells, contracting and excavating. He held the office of constable at Duquesne borough for fifteen years, and in 1890 purchased the Hamilton Avenue Hotel, which he has since successfully managed. He owns a fine farm in Washington county, where he procures most of his provisions. Mr. Thompson is a veteran of the Civil war, having been a member of Company A, One Hundred and Forty-third Ohio Regiment. The date of his' honorable discharge from the service of his country was August, 1864. He was married February 28, 1867, to Christina Lewis, daughter of John Lewis, of Salineville, Ohio. The children of this union were: William; John Lewis, died in infancy; Clarence Norman, Nora, Robert, married Stephens, and they
are the parents of five children; Birclella, the widow of William Geodley; he was a son of the Rev. Mr. Geodley, of Mt. Washington, and they have two childrenThelma and au infant son, deceased; Roy, married a Miss Snyder, and they have, children; Ola M., at home and looks after the affairs of the hotel, in which she takes much pride and interest. Also one child who died December 31, 1906. Mrs. Thompson, the mother, is dead. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Mystic Chain; Eagles of Duquesne, and the Grand Army of the Republic. Politically he supports the Republican party and attends the Alethodist church, the denomination to which his parents belonged.
A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people By John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan pgs 326-330
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