Andrew Purdy Thompson and Elizabeth Donaldson

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Husband Andrew Purdy Thompson ¹

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           Born: 22 May 1810 - Hopewell Twp, York Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph Thompson (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Purdy (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1844 1

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   Other Spouse: Lydia W. McKee (      -      ) 1 - 1879 1

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Wife Elizabeth Donaldson ²

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         Father: Andrew Donaldson (1789-1843) 3
         Mother: Jane "Jennie" McBurney (1794-1866) 3

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Children

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1 M William Reed Thompson ¹

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           Born:  - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Spouse: Mary Thaw (      -      ) 4

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2 M Dr. Andrew D. Thompson ¹

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3 M Joseph Alexander Thompson ¹

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4 M James R. Thompson, M.D. ¹

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5 F Jennie E. Thompson ¹

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6 F Ella N. Thompson ¹

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7 F Anna M. Thompson ¹

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         Spouse: Otto G. Schultz (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Purdy Thompson

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He spent his youth on his father's farm, with such slender opportunities for schooling as country districts afforded at the beginning of the 19th century. Books were not abundant, but the Bible, the Psalms (Rouse's version), the Shorter Catechism gave ample exercise for memorizing, and Pilgrim's Progress, Gospel Sonnets, Marrow of Modern Divinity and one or two others of like character in poetry and fiction comprised the library of that day. Before long, he was teaching school in his own county, and afterward in Newville, Cumberland County, whence, after teaching and preparing himself, he came to western Pennsylvania, and entered Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, teaching during his vacations. After one or two years spent at college he came to Allegheny City, where he became the principal of the Fourth ward public school, which was then in the basement of a Seceder (later the Second U. P.) church. Here he began studying for the ministry, but lack of means to regularly prosecute his studies, and the necessities of his little family-he having married in the meantime-compelled him to give over this cherished hope. In 1847 he was sent by the church as a missionary to the island of Trinidad, West Indies, where he and his wife were stationed nearly three years. On their return he became the agent of the Young Men's Bible society of Allegheny County, a position he filled for many years thereafter.
Originally a whig in politics, then an abolitionist, he was present in Lafayette hall at the birth of the Republican party, from whose principles he never swerved except upon the candidacy of Horace Greeley for president. A United Presbyterian in faith, a prohibitionist from conviction, he spent over fifty years of his life in his community, respected by all men for his quiet, blameless integrity.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 539.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 386.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 71, 386.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 540.