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Dr. Arthur G. Thompson, though perhaps classed among the younger members of the medical fraternity in this region, has already attained a position of honor and influence, and is esteemed an able and worthy practitioner. He was born in Rochester, Racine County, Wis., October 13, 1851, his parents, Anthony and Ann (Carter) Thompson, being of English nativity. The father was born in 1809, and the mother in 1811. They came to America in 1844, settling in Wisconsin, where they both died. Dr. Thompson is a graduate of Keokuk Medical College. At the age of thirteen he commenced business for himself, and when twenty-six years of age was married to Miss Stella E. Fuller, of Whiteside County, Ill. They have four children: Azuba (aged twelve), Louis (aged nine), Inez (aged seven), and Carter (aged three). Dr. Thompson owns eighty acres of valuable land in this county, besides property at White Sulphur Springs, and in addition to these interests he has a stock of drugs and general merchandise. His success as a merchant is a just reward of faithful application. He is a Republican in politics, and, besides being an accomplished physician and skillful surgeon, is a man of great public and private enterprise.