General agent for Eastern Michigan, of Connecticut Life Insurance Co., of Hartford, Conn.; born, Pella, Ia., Feb. 20, 1873; son of Abraham and Anna (Westfall) Thompson; educated at Rutgers Preparatory School, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers College, graduating, degree of A.B., 1894; post-graduate work at Columbia University, 1895-96; married at Burlington, Vt., Oct. 13, 1897, Katharine E. Stone. Began active career as agent of the Connecticut mutual Life Insurance Co. at New York City, 1897, and has continued with the company as follows: In New York City until 1901; general agent at New Eastern Michigan, since April, 1907. Republican. Congregationalist. Member Delta Upsilon, Meganitic Fish and Game Corporation, Portland, Me. Clubs: University (Detroit); Graduates (New Haven). Recreations: Fishing. Office: 515-516 Hammond Bldg. Residence: 161 Parker Av.
From the Book of Detroiters 1908 by Albert Nelson Marquis