Career
According to United States. Census research by Ralph Richey, Thompson was probably born in 1824 or 1825 in northern Essex County, Massachusetts. By 1851 he had moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts where he was a teacher, performer, and impresario. Later he was connected with several minstrel companies, including Morris Brothers, Pell, Huntley"s, and Trowbridge"s Minstrels in Boston and Morris and Wilson"s Opera Troupe in Saint Louis (1865-1866).
