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SOURCE: History of Lapeer County, Michigan
        with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
        of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
        H.R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1884
        

         Page 44
         
                DANIEL THOMSON was born in Paisley, Scotland, December
             12, 1822.  He was by early occupation a Paisley shawl
             weaver.  May 31, 1848, he married JANET WILIE, a native
             of Paisley, Scotland, and two days after came to this
             country, leaving his wife.  He worked at weaving at New
             Ipswich, N.H., (where his wife joined him) about a year,
             then at Blackstone, Mass., and at Bristol and New Provi-
             dence, R.I.  In February, 1855, he came with his parents,
             wife and two children to Almont, and settled on the farm
             which his father had bought in 1851, the northeast quarter
             of section 13, on which he has remained to the present
             time, except one year when he went East with his wife on
             account of his health.  In addition to this he owns eighty
             acres in the town of Berlin, St. Clair County.  His wife
             died in 1866, and in 1867 he married Mrs. MARGARET GEMMELL,
             whose maiden name was McARTHUR.  In 1879 they were burned
             out, saving nothing - the family barely escaping with their
             lives.  Mr. THOMSON has four children; two have died.
             ELIZABETH, wife of GEORGE BOWEN, lives at Imlay; MARGARET,
             wife of WILLIAM B. WALLACE, died December 8, 1880; JANET,
             wife of THOMAS B. WALLACE, lives at Denver, Col.; ELLEN
             died February 24, 1881; JAMES W. and WILLIAM D. are at
             home.
            
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