Biography - William Thomson
WILLIAM THOMSON, M. D. Although among the comparatively young men in
professional life, William Thomson, M. D., has attained success by devotion
to toil in his profession, and is now in the enjoyment of a lucrative
practice and the esteem and confidence of all in the village of Belknap, his
chosen field of endeavor. Dr. Thomson is a native of Johnson county, having
been born at Simpson, September 4, 1884, a son of John and Mary E. (Cornish)
Thomson.
Eli Thomson, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Thomson, was born in Tennessee,
and settled in Johnson county, where he took up government land at an early
day and became a prominent agriculturist. The maternal grandparents of the
Doctor, Eli and Emily Cornish, came from Scotland to America, settling first
in West Virginia and later removed to Johnson county. John and Mary Thomson
were both born in Tennessee and accompanied their parents to Illinois as
children, after marriage settling on a farm, and later moving to Simpson,
where they now reside.
The early educational training of William Thomson was obtained in the public
schools of his native county, and later he entered the Southern Illinois
State Normal School, at Carbondale. In the fall of 1905 he became a student
in Barnes Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, and in 1909 was graduated
therefrom with the degree of M. D. Immediately thereafter he started to
practice in the village of Belknap, where he has a large and steadily
increasing practice. He is a member of several medical associations, and
stands as high in the esteem of his fellow practitioners as he does in that
of the public. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of
America.
In 1908 Dr. Thomson was married to Bertha Marberry, of Simpson, daughter of
Wiley and Zue Marberry, and they have one child: William Glen. Dr. Thomson's
office is conveniently situated in the heart of the business portion of the
village. Constant perusal of numerous medical journals and magazines to
which he is a subscriber has made him well read and kept him in constant
touch with the recent discoveries and inventions of his profession. He is
eminently fitted for his profession, being a close student, a sympathetic
practitioner and a lover of the work to which he has decided to give his
activities.
Extracted 14 Jan 2018 by Norma Hass from 1912 A History of Southern Illinois, volume 2, page 725.
