When Edward Louis Thompson was born on 6 October 1943, in Cut Bank, Glacier, Montana, United States, his father, Rex Hudson Thompson, was 21 and his mother, Edna Mae Sollars, was 17. He died on 15 March 1994, in Winter Park, Grand, Colorado, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, United States.
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 .
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