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Thompson, Edward H., has for many years been one of Watertown's leading citizens and merchants. He was born in
Martinsburg, Lewis county, N. Y., in September, 1835. After completing his schooling he went to New Haven, Conn.,
to take up the study of portrait painting with Wales Hotchkiss, where he remained for three years, but was forced
to give up his chosen profession on account of defective eyesight. In 1859 he removed to Watertown and engaged
in the retail grocery business in company with Mr. Tyler, under the style of E. H. Thompson & Co. This copartnership
continued until 1866, when Mr. Thompson purchased his partner's interest and conducted the business alone until
1892, when he admitted J. W. Van Camp and L. J. McDonald, under the firm name of E. H. Thompson & Co., which
firm is now one of the largest in Northern New York. Mr. Thompson was married in November, 1860, to Mary E. Isham,
who died in 1803, and he was again married in May, 1866, to Mary A. Hopkins.
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