Helge (Harry E) THOMPSON

1856 - 1942  (86 years)

• Name	Helge (Harry E) THOMPSON
  Birth	1 Feb 1856	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Dec 1942	Wisconsin
  	His obit is in the Wisconsin Necrology files, vol. 48, p. 125. Date from Oak Hill on-line burial records.
  Burial	Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
  	N EA 000 0 64 0 001
  Notes	Jim has Helge as #6825. According to Jim, Helge was a businessman in the U.S. and married a Marianne Hougen (b. 1859, d. 1956, m. 27 Jun 1888) and died 30 Dec 1942 in Manitowoc County or in Kaukauna. In the 1930 census, he is Harry E. Thompson, 74, with wife Marianne, 71, who lived in Kaukauna. Living with them is their 31 year-old daughter, Marcella, who is a high school teacher. Harry is apparently retired because he has no occupation. In the 1920 census, he, Marion, and Marcella live in Kaukauna. Harry came to the U.S. in 1869. He is the proprietor of a shoe store. In the 1910 census we learn that they also have a son Oscar, 20, and that Oscar and Marcella are the only two children that “May” has had. Harry is a merchant with a shoe store and Oscar is an “apprentice merchant.” In the 1900 census we learn that Harry came to the U.S. in 1870. In the 1940 census, Harry, Marianne, and Marcella live at 114 West 9th Street in Kaukauna. That is the same house that all three of them had lived in five years earlier. Harry, 84, has no occupation. Marcella, 42, is a school teacher. In the 1880 census, he was 24 year-old Harry Thompson living with, and working in the shoe shop of, Knut K Strande and his family of Cato, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. In the 1910 Kaukauna city directory, Harry E Thompson’s occupation is “full line shoes” on 2nd. He and Marion reside on 9th. In the 1936 Kaukauna city directory, Harry E Thompson and wife Marion reside at 114 W 9th. There is a biographical sketch of Harry in the History of Outagamie County, p. 783, published in 1911: HARRY E. THOMPSON, a well-known and successful shoe merchant of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, who is the proprietor of the oldest establishment in this line on the south side, has been intimately connected with civic affairs in Kaukauna during the past few years. Mr. Thompson was born in Norway, February 1, 1856, and came to the United States in 1871 with an uncle, on whose farm in Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, he worked during the summer months, while attending school during the winter time. In 1873 he went to Cato, Wisconsin, to learn the trade of shoemaker, and later was located at Alexandria, Minnesota, and Bismarck, North Dakota. After one year at the latter place he returned to Cato, from whence after a short period he came to Kaukauna and opened a shoe store, in 1884, in the Mills Block. In 1897, his increased trade demanding more space, he came to his present location, where he has a modern establishment, equipped with every convenience and facility known to the shoe trade. Mr. Thompson is possessed of much business ability, and his business has demanded much of his attention, but he has still found time to devote to public matters, and has served very acceptably as alderman and poor commissioner, and is now acting in the capacities of water commissioner and school treasurer. His fraternal connections are with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Masons. Mr. Thompson was married June 27, 1888, to Marion Haugen, of Valders, Wisconsin, and two children have been born to this union: Oscar T., who is a student at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison; and Marcella, aged fourteen, attending the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the Lutheran faith, but are attending the Congregational Church at Kaukauna.
  Person ID	I4057	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	Tollef Oleson ELLINGBÖ,   b. 4 Jun 1821, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 1885, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Marit Jøgersdatter QUAM,   b. 1826, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 1898, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	20 Jun 1843	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Family ID	F3246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marian HOUGEN,   b. Jan 1859, Wisconsin d. 6 Jun 1956, Wisconsin (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	27 Jun 1888
  Children	1. Oscar Theodore THOMPSON,   b. 20 Jul 1889, Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin d. 26 Oct 1947, Wisconsin (Age 58 years)   2. Anna Marcella THOMPSON,   b. 2 May 1897, Wisconsin d. 15 May 1971, Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F3252	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2008