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The British Whig (Kingston, Ontario)
November 12, 1907

        CAPTAIN THOMPSON DEAD

        Oswego, Nov. 12th - CAPTAIN JOHN THOMPSON,
      connected with the shipping interests of the city, died on Monday. He
      was a native of Norway, having been born there eighty-four years ago.
      When he first came to this country as a boy he found employment as a
      driver. During his later years he became a marine engineer and was
      employed in government service in Mobile Bay. After living a short
      time in Buffalo, he located in this city, and had made it his home
      for the past forty years.
         He was best known by marine men as owner and captain of the May
      Queen. At a later time he became engineer of the tug William Avery.
      CAPT. THOMPSON has been retired from active life for some time. He
      was a member of a Buffalo lodge of Oddfellows. He is survived by one
      son, CAPTAIN ALBERT THOMPSON, of the Lehigh Valley tug Cortland.

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