When William M Thompson was born on 6 April 1837, in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, United States, his father, Alexander A Thompson, was 29 and his mother, Mary Ann Cochrane, was 25. He married Mary Elizabeth Belknap on 4 February 1864, in North East, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Detroit Ward 10, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Conneaut Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 27 September 1918, in Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had reasons for wanting a move inland. This move would make the Capitol more easily defensible in case of another war between the British and the U.S. like that of the War of 1812. Proponents of moving the capitol also sought to make the government more accessible to the people throughout the state. Construction began in 1847 on a temporary state capitol building in Lansing. It was a simple two-story wood frame structure, painted white with green wooden shutters and topped by a tin cupola. The building was sold when the permanent capitol building opened in 1879 and, like the first capitol, it was later destroyed by a fire in 1882.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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