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lature three years and holder of various town offices, and Abbie Parker 
(Wood) Thompson. He has a brother, Clifford B. Thompson, B.S. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College ’07, and two sisters: Helen L. 
Thompson, a graduate of Bridgewater (Mass.) Normal School, and 
Bertha A. Thompson. 
He was prepared at the Bridgewater (Mass.) High School and in 1909 
received the degree of B.S. from the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and various clubs and 
had four years of military drill, being adjutant his Senior year. 
He is unmarried. 
Since graduating from the Forest School Thompson has been 
forest assistant in the United States Forest Service with head- 
quarters in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming. He writes: 
“After leaving Texas in June, 1911, traveled through the Middle 
West, arriving in Denver, Colo., on July 1. Then went to Cody, 
Wyo., and have since been traveling over the country adjacent 
to the Yellowstone National Park on the east.” 
He is a Progressive Republican. 
Robert E. Thompson 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Robert Elmer Thompson received the degree of B.S. at 
Michigan Agricultural College in 1910. He has not furnished 
any information for this record. 
Sidney H. Thompson 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Home address, 47 Summer Street, St. Johnsbury, Vt. 
Sidney Hammond Thompson was born March 29, 1887, in Irasburg, 
Vt., the son of Laforrest Holman Thompson (died in June, 1900) and 
Helen (Kinney) Thompson. His father was state’s attorney in 1874-75, 
judge of probate in 1876 and 1881, twice a member of the Vermont 
state legislature, senator from Orleans County, Vt., in 1884, and judge 
of the supreme court from 1891 until his death. On his father’s side he 
is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, being the grandson of Rev. Levi S. Thomp- 
son and Irene (Hodgkins) Thompson, and on his mother’s side of Welsh 
and Scotch descent, the grandson of Hammond Kinney and Amanda 
(Edson) Kinney. He has two sisters: Margaret (Thompson) Sylvester 
and Helen (Thompson) Smith; and two brothers: Frank Dutton Thomp- 
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