Elmdale, KS
example from LOST GALLERY
John Abels Thompson
1862-1928
1862 Feb 02
Various sources, John Abel Thompson is born to Asa Thompson and Emma Abels
1875 Mar 01
Howard, KS, Kansas State census, J A Thompson at age 13
1880 Jun 19
Howard, KS, US census, J A Thompson at age 18, no occupation shown
1883 July
Howard, KS, Postal Clerk roster, listed as postal clerk in Howard, KS, annual compensation 420.00
1885 Mar 01
Howard, KS, Kansas State census, J A Thompson as Bookkeeper and Postal Clerk (apparently enumerated twice, once at home and once at work
1891 Aug 21
Howard (KS) Courant, display ad for J A Thompson Furniture Sale
1894 Aug 03 – 1894 Sep 07
Howard (KS) Courant, display ad for book store Heichert Proprietor, (Successor to J A Thompson)
1896 Oct 16
Strong City (KS) Derrick, display ad for photographer J A Thompson
1897 Jan 01
Strong City (KS) Derrick, display ad for photographer J A Thompson
1898 Dec 06
Howard (KS) Courant, Display ad for J A Thompson Gallery
1898 Dec 23
Howard (KS) Courant, Bio paragraph about photographer J A Thompson; mentions learning the training with Mrs S H Waite of Emporia, KS
1899 Jan 13
Howard (KS) Courant, small ad for J A Thompson, photographer
1899 Feb 17
Howard (KS) Courant, display ad for Thompson, photographer
1899 May 05
Howard (KS) Courant, small ad for J A Thompson, photographer
1899 Aug 23
Howard (KS) Citizen, news item lists marriage of John A Thompson and Margaret Smiley in Howard, KS
1900 May 18
Moline (KS) Advance, small ad shows J A Thompson to be at Mrs Long’s Gallery in Moline 5/23/1900
1900 Jun 28
Howard, KS, US census, John A Thompson as photographer
1903 Oct 093
Howard (KS) Courant, small news item says Thompson has taken views of city during carnival
1904 Nov 02
Howard (KS) Courant, small ad for J A Thompson parade views on sale at post office
1905 Mar 01
Howard, KS, Kansas State census, J A Thompson as photographer
1910 Apr 29
Howard, KS, US census, J A Thompson as photographer
1915 Mar 01
Eureka, KS, Kansas state census, J A Thompson as photographer
1919 Mar 01
Genola, KS, Kansas state census, J A Thompson listed, no occupation shown, 2 in family
1920 Jan 13
Eureka, KS, US census, John A Thompson as photographer (on line one)
1928 Aug 02
Kansas City (MO) Times, news item says John A Thompson has died (today) at home in Lincoln, NE
1928 Aug 28
Lincoln, NE, Geneanet Community Tree Index, John A Thompson dies at age 66
To further obscure the history of John A Thompson, there was one advertisement for a photographer named J A Thompson working in Parsons, KS, in 1878, which would be when J A Thompson of Howard, KS, would be only about 16 years old.
There was also a telegraph operator in the 1885 Kansas census named John A Thompson.
There was a John A Thompson, born in Iowa, listed in Greenfield, KS, 1905 as a farmer
21 Aug 1891
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