Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-10-27
A LIFE ENDED.
Death Loves a Shining Mark-In the
Midst OF Life We are in Death.
Our City Government Should Conform in
Name, to Agree With Our Town
In Fame.
George o. Thomson.

| George o. Thompson.
At five O'Clock and twenty minutes last
evening the gentleman whose name heads
this sketch, passed from this world to his
reward in the next, and while his contin-
ued illness has been a cause of anxiety
and suspense to his numerous friends, this
announcement will fall with no less
crushing weight upon all who have known
and learned to love him during his brief
residence in our midst.
Mr.. George o. Thompson was born in
Ulster county, New York, on the 9Th day
of July, 1874, being at the time Of his
his death thirty-clght years old. His
father, Lynde Thompson, and his mother,
Sarah A., residing at the time on the fam
lily homestead, comfortable Ulster coun-
ty farm. George grew to manhood
amidst the delightful surroundings of that
far famed region, graduating from the
common school and later from Eastman's
celebrated Commercial college at Pough-
kecpsie. At the age Of twenty-one he
settled in New Y ork city, engaging in the
iron business and for the the past fourteen
years Mr.. Thompson has been connected
with the Brady Iron Manufacturing Com
pany in position of great responsibility.
On the 9Th of October, 1875, Mr.
Thompson was united IN marriage in the
city of New York, to Hattie 1. Doughty,
the uni on proving more than ordinarily
happy one.
From chll dhood the subject of this no.
tice has been consistent christian, his
good works and his daily life proving more
than his words the sincerity of his belief.
For fourteen years he has been con-
nected with the Washington SquareMeth-
odist church New York city, and during
that period one of the most active workers
in both church and Sabbath school.
In April of the present year Mr.. Thomp-
son was attracted by the glowing reports
of the New Northwest and removed to
Jamestown, accepting the position of
secretary of the North Dakota Loan and
Trust Company and in other ways asso-
ciating himself with the business of
Messrs. Wells and Dudley. Soon after
his arrival here Mr.. Thompson and his
wife united themselves with the Presby-
terian society, and few weeks since MIR.
Thompson was elected superintendent of
the Sabbath school connected with that
/ IL, f,,op in hot
had he been able to exertit, is well proven
by the fact thatjn the short period of his
connection with the school as superinten-
dent the enrolment had increased about
fifty per cent. The testimony of the
business associates of the deceased is that
no truer man ever lived and no person
could have been taken whose loss would
prove more serious to our social,
business and religious circles. The blow
falls with peculiar and overwhelming
force upon the stricken wife, because of
the distance from her old home and
friends and further because Of the previ-
Gus recent affections suffered by her.
Mrs. Thompson was an only child and
within few years has lost by death, both
father and mother, an uncle and child,
the last the only fruit of her union with
the husband now laid low by the same
grim monster.
Of MIR. Thompson's family, the father is
dead, the Survivors being the mother,
two brothers and a sister, all residing IN
or near New York City, and to all these,
as we'll as to the afflicted and comfortless
wife, the sympathies of the entire COM
munity are freely given. MIR. Thompson
was gentleman OF robust frame, vigor-
Gus mind aud body, sickness having been
entirely unknown to HIM previous to the
attack from which he failed to recover.
His father and one brother surrendered
to the same disease-typho phneumonia-
and under similar circumstances, a fact
that has often required to the mind OF
his wife and caused her gloomy forebod-
ings during his illness.
The remains will be taken to New
York for lnterment, accompanied by the
widow and Mr.. Dudley, the friend and
business associate of the deceased.
A prayer and singing will constitute
the services, at the Presbyterian church
at las this afternoon, after which the
body Will be followed to the train.
1t is expected that the children OF the
Sunday school Will testify to their love
for their superintendent by beng present
at the church.
We append to this short and Imperfect
sketch of noble life, the tribute OF his
pastor and friend, the Rev. n. d. Fan
ming.
Mr.. Geo. o. Thompson, formerly O
New York City, Is dead. The tiding'
will be received with universal regret By
his manliness and integrity, his warn
sympathies and patient fidelity, he ha:
won all hearts. Though among u:
, but few months, he has left his impres
sion upon the circles IN which he moved
, and his memory will be an inspiration tt
l many. His noble earnestness in ever,
t good work IS worthy of the highest enCo
: mium His gentleness was contagious
For the work of true man advancement
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