Samuel Thompson

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Husband Samuel Thompson ¹

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         Father: [Father] Thompson (      -      )
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1 F Eliza Thompson ²

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         Spouse: Washington McClintock (Abt 1814-1870) 2

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2 M Robert D. Thompson ³

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Thompson

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He came to Pittsburgh from Chester County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1807, and with his brother James conducted a tailoring business under the firm name of S. & J. Thompson, occupying a store on the east side of Market street, near Water street. They made uniforms for army officers during the War of 1812, and it is written that after the war Samuel Thompson made a journey on horseback to Kentucky to collect debts for uniforms furnished. The firm's signature appears upon the petition addressed to Congress by the people of Pittsburgh, in 1817, asking for the establishment of a branch of the United States Bank at Pittsburgh. Its establishment did not prove to be the financial blessing they had anticipated. Later Samuel Thompson occupied a store on the west side of Market street, almost directly opposite the first site. About the year 1825 he conducted a general store at the northwest corner of Market street and Fourth street, later Fourth avenue. In 1830 he bought from Henry Holdship a property on Market street, near Liberty, upon which the McClintock building stood, where he conducted an exclusive drygoods and carpet trade. In the early '30's Samuel Thompson shipped from Pittsburgh to Nashville, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, stocks of clothing of his own manufacture, for branch stores which he opened in these new towns.

He wrote letters to his brother Jacob in 1832, describing his journey by steamboat to Nashville and St. Louis in which he says: "The object of my journey was to examine into the state of my two establishments,-the one at St. Louis, and the other at Nashville, and with a view probably of bringing them to a close."

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 87, 378.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 87, 377.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 378.