Henry Martin Thompson

   Cause of his death was suicide by gunshot.

  General Notes:

middle name also spelled Martyn

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Henry was at one time agent of the Manchester Print Works and later agent of the Lowell Felting Co at Lowell, MA.

1880 Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
Henry M. THOMPSON Self M Male W 33 NH Agt Fitting Mill NH ME
Nellie S. THOMPSON Wife M Female W 26 NH Keeping House NH NH
Albert W. THOMPSON Son S Male W 6 MA NH NH
Margaret MCCARTY Other S Female W 37 IRE Servant IRE IRE
Anna HIGGINS Other S Female W 13 MA At School & Servant IRE IRE
Arthur WILKINS Other S Male W 22 MA Servant ME ME

LOWELL DAILEY SUN - 14 Dec 1893
"The surgeons in St. John's Hospital were obliged to take 38 stitches yesterday to close the wound in Henry Thompson's hand. He was injured by the falling of brick near the Chelmsford Street sewer."

Compiled from The City Clerk's Reports (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Published in Local Newspapers
REPORT OF DEATHS 1909
Thompson, Henry M. 4 Jan 1909 age 61

BOSTON JOURNAL - 5 Jan 1909
"H M THOMPSON A SUICIDE
Lowell - Jan 4 - Henry M. Thompson formerly owner of the Lowell felting mills, committed suicide tonight while the rest of the family were at dinner by shooting himself through the head. Mr. Thompson who was 61 years of age, had been suffering from melancholia for two years and his act came at the end of a particularly despondent day."

Henry married Ellen Straw, daughter of Gov Ezekiel Albert Straw and Charlotte Smith Webster, on 12 Sep 1872 in Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (Ellen Straw was born on 16 Feb 1852 in Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire and died on 31 Dec 1926 in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.)

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