S. G. Thompson, Esq. and Joanna Kenly

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Husband S. G. Thompson, Esq. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 May 1833 - Washington Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Thompson (1800-1887) 1 2
         Mother: Jane Thompson (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 13 Sep 1855 3

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Wife Joanna Kenly ³

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         Father: William Kenly (      -      ) 3
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General Notes: Husband - S. G. Thompson, Esq.

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He was raised on his father's farm where he was trained to habits of prudence and industry. He was educated in the common schools and Elder's Ridge academy, where he was prepared to enter the junior class in college. Leaving the academy in 1851 he engaged in teaching and followed that profession for thirty years in Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong counties of Pennsylvania. He helped to organize the first teacher's institute in western Pennsylvania, which was held by the teachers of Indiana and Westmoreland counties at Blairsville, in 1853. He advocated the county superintendency long before its establishment by the Legislature of the State. In 1870 he was principal of the Saltsburg schools and served one year. In the same year he was elected justice of the peace on the republican ticket in Bell township, which contained two hundred democrats and sixteen republican voters at the time. His popularity as a justice of the peace led to his re-election, although a republican, in the face of an adverse, overwhelming democratic majority. He was thus fairly launched upon a political career ere he hardly became aware of the fact. In 1878 he was elected county auditor, and nine years later he was nominated and elected to the position of county commissioner. He has lived on the corner of West Otterman and Joe streets, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, for many years.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church ever since attending school at Elder's Ridge academy, and later was an active member of the Greensburg Presbyterian church.
In 1861 S. G. Thompson was among the first to enter in the Federal service. He enlisted on October 14, 1866, in Co. F, eleventh reg., Pa. Vols., under Col. Richard Coulter, and was at Cedar Mountain, Thoroughfare Gap, Second Bull Run, Antietam and Chantilly. He was promoted from private to orderly sergeant and was discharged September 27, 1862, on account of physical disability contracted in the Union service.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 131.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 170.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 171.