Rev. Jacob L. Thompson and Sarah Park

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Husband Rev. Jacob L. Thompson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Dec 1841 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 4 Sep 1872 3

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Wife Sarah Park ^{2 3}

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            AKA: Sarah Parks 4
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         Father: William Park (1797-1870) 5
         Mother: Jane Law (      -1892) 4 5

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Children

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1 F Martha J. Thompson ³

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           Born: 10 Jun 1873 3
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2 M William Park Thompson ³

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           Born: 21 Jun 1875 3
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           Died: 1 Oct 1881 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Alexander M. Thompson ³

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           Born: 2 Nov 1883 3
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Jacob L. Thompson

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He was born in Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania. At the age of one year he was taken by his parents to West Virginia where he attended subscription schools from six until ten years of age, when he returned to the vicinity of Cannonsburg, in his native county, and for the next eight years followed farming. When the civil war broke out Jacob L. Thompson was one of those who rushed to the defense of the "Stars and Stripes" and assisted in crushing the Rebellion; he enlisted September, 1861, in company A, eighty-fifth reg., Pa. Vols., and was with McClellan throughout his Peninsular campaign. He also participated in the operations of Gilmore's army in South Carolina as well as in the campaign of Gen. B. F. Butler during the spring and summer of 1864. He took part in a large number of battles, including those of Williamsburg, Bermuda Hundred, Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains, Siege of Petersburg Fort Harrison, etc., and was mustered out at Pittsburgh, in November, 1864, having served three years and two months. Jacob L. Thompson during the last year he spent on the farm previous to the war, had attended school at Jefferson college, Canonsburg, and now that his military duties were over he again turned his attention to obtaining an education. He entered Duff's business college at Pittsburgh from which institution he graduated May 12, 1865; then went to Elder's Ridge academy two sessions-1866 and 1867. After one year's experience as a teacher in Merrittstown Presbyterial academy, of Dunlap's creek, Pennsylvania, he entered, September, 1867, the junior class of Washington and Jefferson college, at Washington, Pennsylvania, and graduated from that college with the class of '69, having completed the classical course laid down by that substantial institution of learning. In September of that year he became a student of the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny City, graduating April 15, 1872. The same spring he located at Curry's run as pastor of the Presbyterian church of that place, where he remained in that capacity four years. He was next called to the pastorate of the New Salem Presbyterian church and in 1876 he removed to New Salem (Delmont). He was a man of keen intellect, sharp, shrewd and sagacious; his views were broad and liberal and his heart filled with benevolence; he was both witty and humorous, and his discourses frequently sparkled with genius, though the subject apparently be dry and prosaic.

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Park

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from Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 706.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1413.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 707.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 698.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 286.