Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

SETH J. THOMPSON, Beardstown Ferry, Beardstown; is a native 
of this county; born in Monroe Precinct, June 8, 1840. 
George B. Thompson, subject's father, was born in Orange 
County, N.Y., Sept. 23, 1800, and married in New York, 
Hannah Beers, who bore him four sons and two daughters. He 
came to Monroe Precinct in 1839, moved from his farm there 
in 1842, and after various changes of location and 
occupation, he and his son went, in 1850, via the overland 
route, to California and Oregon, remaining twenty-one 
months, and returned via Nicaragua and New Orleans, staying 
ten days in Havana, Cuba, during the Walker Expedition. He 
run the Beardstown ferry from 1852 to 1858, then engaged in 
the grocery business till 1862, our subject assisting in 
the forwarding and commission business, and afterward 
engaged in glass and queensware business several years, and 
also in farming three years; he died June 2, 1872. Our 
subject enlisted Oct. 18, 1861, in Co. G, 32d Ill. 
Volunteer Infantry, and served three years in the Army of 
the Tennessee; was first duty Sergeant, and was mustered 
out near Rome, Ga., Oct. 24, 1864. He participated in the 
battle of Shiloh, the sieges of Corinth and Vicksburg, and 
the Meridian Raid. After his return from the war, he worked 
awhile on the Beardstown Ferry, afterward, in company with 
Luther A. Jones, ran it for five and one-half years, then, 
in company with John W. Seaman, for two years, and, from 
1873 to July, 1881, ran it in company with John Rohn, he 
having bought Seaman's interest; since that time it has 
been controlled by Thompson & Co. Mr. Thompson was licensed 
as pilot and captain on the river from St. Louis to La 
Salle in 1872, and has run, almost every season since, on 
various steamboats. He married, Dec. 7, 1860, Addie Rahn, 
of Beardstown.

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