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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
JAMES B. THOMPSON,
CORPUS CHRISTI,Has for over forty years been a resident of the
L,one Star State. He came to Texas in 1853 from
Louisville, Ky., where he was born July 23d, 1837.
His parents were Capt. James and Mrs. Nancy
(Baird) Thompson. Capt. James Thompson was a
native of Brimfield, Mass., and came West when a
youth, and pioneered as a steamboatman on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers. His wife, nee Miss
Nancy Baird, was of Scoth antecedents and born in
Pennsylvania. Our subject was about sixteen
years of age when he came to Texas. He was restless
and ambitious to accomplish something for
himself in the world, and landing at Port Lavaca,
entered the commission business at that place as a
partner with S. J. Lee, and remained there until the
war between the States, when he learned of the organization
of Walker's Battalion at Hempstead, in
Waller County, Texas, and made his way to that
point and enlisted in the battalion. Thereafter he
served three years in the Confederate army in
Louisiana and Arkansas, during which time he participated
in the series of brilliant engagements that
characterized the Red River campaign and resulted
in the defeat and rout of Banks' army. After the
war Mr. Thompson returned to Fort Lavaca and
associated himself in business with R. D. Blossman,
a Texas pioneer of prominence in his day, of whom
mention is made elsewhere in this volume. The
new firm did business at Port Lavaca until 1871when they removed to Indianola. About this time
the present branch of the Southern Pacific Railway
was being built, and the firm opened an establishment
at Victoria, and as the road progressed, they,
in 1873, went to Cuero.
In 1875 the firm of Blossman
Nancy M., deceased in 1896, and Miss Mary Lee,
unmarried.
There are few more active and energetic old-time
Texians than Mr. James B. Thompson. He is
essentially a business man, has never aspired to
political prominence or official honors, and his success
in life is entirely due to his energy, aggressive
enterprise and integrity. His firm leads in its line
of trade in Corpus Christi, and has the confidence
and esteem of a very extensive circle of friends and
patrons.,~~~ .1 . . . . .ZIY
MICHEL SCHODTS,
BROWNSVILLE.Michel Schodts was born in Antwerp, Belgium,
May 30, 1836, and came to this country during the
war between the States, spent some time in New
Orleans as accountant, and then located in Matamoros,
in 1862, where he became a clerk and afterwards
a partner in a large impoiting house. In
1866 he married Miss Susan Diaz, at Matamoros,
Mexico. She died three years later, leaving one
little daughter, Marie Isabel, who now survives
them and is now married. Some time after he removed
to Brownsville, where he for many years
carried on a very successful trade in lumber and
other articles. There he built up a considerable
fortune, and won numerous warm friends by his good
qualities of mind and heart. He was highly esteemed
as a business man, and generally respected
as a worthy citizen. The universal regret expressed
at his untimely end by the people of
Brownsville proved the high regard in which he was
held.
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Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, book, 1880~; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6725/m1/840/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.