James M. Thompson

James M. Thompson - Was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, November 6,1833, and is the son of Simpson and Susan T. Simpson Thompson. He received a common school education in his native place, and then, in 1851-2, attended the Williston Seminary, in Hampton, Massachusetts. August 4,1854, he sailed from New York on the steamer "George Law," to the Isthmus; came, part of the way across that on a railroad, and the balance on the hurricane deck of a mule; thence on the steamer "Sonora," arriving in San Francisco August 28th of that year. He came at once to the Soscol ranch, where he has been engaged in the nursery and orchard business, in connection with his brother and father. In 1874 he went to Texas and purchased, in company with two others, a tract of ten thousand acres of land and stocked it. He now owns a half interest in that vast estate. He was married May 28, 1862, to Miss Mary R K. Gluyas, who was born in Philadelphia, February, 1844. Their children are, George S., born June 29, 1864; Margaret Wilson, born September 19, 1867, and William Glnyas, born August 5,1873.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Pages 576-577

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