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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
1789 - 1881
History of Cincinnati, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Compiled by Henry A. Ford, A. M., and Mrs. Kate B. Ford
L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers
1881
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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MR.
F. THOMPSON, of Cincinnati, was born June 7, 1822, in
the city of Wheeling, Virginia, where he was educated.
In 1835 he removed to Hebron, Licking county, Ohio, and in
the service of Cully & Taylor, pork packers
and grain dealers, he remained three years, receiving sixty
dollars for the first year and board. From there he
went to Taylor & Brother, Zanesville, Ohio, and
remained there several years as their salesman. In
April, 1843, he came to Cincinnati, to a dry goods
establishment formerly known as the Bee Hive, where, after
remaining several years, he entered the wholesale grocery
house of Thomas H. Miner & Co., and was there several
years, and afterwards formed a partnership with Mr.
Fisher, senior member of the firm, and went into the
pork-packing business, but withdrew from the firm in the
year 1848. He next engaged with the firm of Bales,
Whitcher & Co., wholesale dealers in hats, caps,
furs, etc., and afterwards went into the business, with
Mr. Whitcher as partner, under the name of M. F.
Thompson & Co., and continued until the death of his
partner, when he assumed all liabilities and paid to the
administrators of the estate a profit of nearly twenty
thousand dollars. He afterwards associated with S.
Goodrich and Calvin Feeble, under the firm name
of Thompson, Goodrich & Co., and continued the
business some time. The city of Cincinnati has called
him to the city council, in which membership he has filled
the chairmanship of committees on finance, water works, and
of other important interests represented by that body.
He has been connected with the mercantile library for over
twenty years.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 499 |
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