THOMPSON-Addison R.A. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Addison R. A. Thompson, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, March 29, 1818. His parents were natives of Virginia. In 1836, Addison first set foo dupon the soil of this, his adopted state. He took his first lesson in the alphabet under the tutlage of John Purdue, now of Lafayette. In 1838, while making his home at Covington, he traveled 1,000 miles on horseback, visiting Iowa, then a vast wilderness. Not withstanding this remarkable equestrian feat of his earlier manhood, Mr. Thompson would hesitate before attempting to ride two horses running in opposite directions around the political arena. In fact he did hestitate and picking out the Independent horse he abandoned to the crows the spavined and otherwise "stove up" Republican horse which he had before ridden. Thus he rode slowly but surely into the public crib. But this is digression. In the spring of 1840, Mr. Thompson embarked in a flat boat at Covington and made a trip to the Crescent City. At Nachez, he cast anchor for a few days to view the wreck wrought in the city by the whirlwind that year. It was something like the tidal wave of last fall, in violence. During the existence of that organization, Mr. Thompson was a Whig, then a Republican now an Independent. He never held any office other than the one to which he was lately elected. For further particulars of the Nachez storm, address Mr. Thompson at Blountsville.