Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the Cascades. Vol. III. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p.608-609. THOMPSON, ALMOND H. Almond H. Thompson, whom Port Angeles classes as a valued citizen, is there engaged in the logging and pile driving business. He was born in Millbrook, Michigan, January 23, 1865, a son of William S. Thompson, who was of Canadian birth and of English parentage and who with his widowed mother went to Michigan in early life, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of that state. He was a lumberman and farmer, in which connection he successfully carried on business for many years, but since 1904 he has practically lived retired in Port Angeles, enjoying a rest which he has truly earned and richly deserves. He married Salina Aldridge, also a native of Canada and of English lineage. Almond H. Thompson, the first born of seven children in his parents' family, was educated in a little log schoolhouse in a rural district of Michigan but had no opportunity to attend school after he reached the age of twelve years. His early life was spent upon the home farm and in the woods, and he followed lumbering in Michigan until 1890, when, attracted by the opportunities of the growing northwest, he came to Clallam county, where he took up government survey work, in which he engaged for four years. He has since been identified with loging interests, and also since 1910 has been engaged in pile driving, meeting with success in both undertakings. His younger brother, Ernest A., is associated with him in his undertakings. In 1895, in Seattle, Mr. Thompson was married to Miss Lydia Behner, a native of Marion, Ohio, and a daughter of Christian and Christine Behner, representatives of an old Ohio family of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have three children: Mamie, who was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1899; William H., born in Seattle in 1901; and Earl, in Port Angeles in 1904. Mr. Thompson has membership in Naval Lodge No. 353, B. P. O. E. of Port Angeles. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and formerly served as county surveyor for one term but in recent years has not been as active along political lines, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business, which has constantly grown until it has assumed large and gratifying proportions. * * * * Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen. Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.