Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Jerome Nelson Thompson and Gertrude Mann




Husband Jerome Nelson Thompson 1

           Born: 14 Apr 1865 - Mexico, Juniata Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Jan 1915 - Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Lewistown, Mifflin Co, PA


         Father: William Porter Thompson (1839-1915) 2
         Mother: Sarah Jane Gilfillen (1839-1916) 2


       Marriage: 



Wife Gertrude Mann 1

           Born: 3 Apr 1875 - Manns, Mifflin Co, PA 1
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           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: William Mann (1837-1876) 1 3 4
         Mother: Mary Ann Cochran (      -Aft 1897) 3




Children
1 F Mary Cochran Thompson 1

           Born: 11 Dec 1906 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 




General Notes: Husband - Jerome Nelson Thompson


He was educated at the Airy View Academy, Port Royal, Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-three he started the First National Bank at Middleburg, Snyder County. He later became director of the Belleville Bank, Belleville, Pennsylvania; director of the Plymouth Bank, Plymouth, Pennsylvania; director of the Russell National Bank, Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and Treasurer of the Wyoming Valley Trust Co., Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. He was also a director in the Connecticut River Power Plant, and of the Wyoming Valley Gas & Electric Light Co. He served for two years as the president of the Thompson family assemblies held annually at Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, beginning in 1911, although his health would not permit his attendance at the exercises.

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Sources


1 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 92.

2 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 91.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 1273.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 431.


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