JOHN THOMPSON, farmer, postoffice Monroeville, was born in County Armagh, 
Ireland, in 1811. His parents, John and Elizabeth (McMullen) Thompson, came to 
Pennsylvania in 1812, and settled soon after on the farm where our subject now 
resides. The father died at the age of one hundred and two, and the mother at 
the age of forty-five. They reared four sons, of whom the eldest and youngest 
are now deceased: James, John, William and Alexander. John has passed his life 
in the township, always residing on the home farm. He has been a lifelong 
republican, and bears the soubriquet of "Honest John." In 1843 he married Mary 
McKnight, a native of Washington county, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth 
(Connor) McKnight. Of thirteen children born to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, six died 
in infancy. The following are the names and residences of the others: William 
and John, in Cannonsburg, Ohio; Anna Mary, wife of Frank McClure, in Patton 
township; Nancy Jane, wife of David Clements, in Plum; James, in Patton; Elmer, 
with his parents, and Rebecca, wife of George Anderson, in Murrysville. Mr. 
Thompson is a member of the U. P. Church.<br>
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  -- Warner's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1889)