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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 543-544]

    J. P. THOMPSON, one of the leading agriculturists of Willow Township,
    is a native of the Buckeye State, born July 25, 1849.  He is a son
    of OLIVER and EMALINE (PENNY) THOMPSON, who were also natives of
    Ohio.  J. P. is one of a family of seven children, and was reared
    to the occupation of a farmer; he obtained his education in the
    common schools of his native State, which probably had not at that
    day attained the standard for which they are to-day justly noted.
    When he was nineteen years old his parents moved to Iowa, and located
    in Marshall County; he remained under the parental shelter until he
    was twenty-one years old, when he went to work for himself.  For two
    years he worked on a farm, and then went to Albion, where he ran a
    dray for a year and a half.  He then left Marshall County, and re-
    moved to Tama County, and after a residence there of one year he
    returned to Marshall County.  The following four years he remained
    there, and then came to Cherokee County, and purchased eighty acres
    of land in Willow Township, on which he is still living.  Mr. THOMPSON
    was united in marriage October 10, 1875, to Miss NAOMI FURGASON, a
    daughter of GEORGE and AMANDA (SHEPARD) FURGASON.  Mrs. THOMPSON was
    born December 5, 1848, in Muscatine County, Iowa.  Her father was a
    native of the State of Pennsylvania, and a blacksmith by trade.  Mr.
    and Mrs. THOMPSON are the parents of one child, EFFIE E.  They are
    worthy and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
    and are numbered among the substantial residents of Willow Township.
    Politically Mr. THOMPSON affiliates with the Republican party, and
    takes an active interest in its success.

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