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Show PIONEER RESIDENT PASSES 86TH ANNIVERSARY Asa Drillman Thompson, Milford Mil-ford resident since 1903, Thursday began his eighty-seventh year 'of life in this troubled world, tranquilly tran-quilly and peacefully watching the milestones go by. He lives in a little house on the east side of the Union Pacific railroad tracks, where he owns a few lots and rents another cabin. He enjovs excellent health, and i? unusuallv active for his advanced age, living alone and caring for his own wants and necessities. Mr. Thompson was born February Febru-ary 14. 1860, in Onawa, Iowa. He worked in his father's sawmills as a youth, first in Iowa and later in Nebraska. In 1890 he moved to Utah and settled in Green River where a brother, J. M. Thompson, operated the electric and water utilities. In 1903 he moved to Milford and has spent the greater part of the intervening years as an employee em-ployee of the Union Pacific. For two years he prospected, but "when I didn't find any gold in two years of lookin', I got discouraged and quit," Mr. Thompson said. In 1883 he was married to Jimmy Smith at Spanish Fork. Two children chil-dren were born to the early residents, resi-dents, one of whom, Claude Thompson Thomp-son of St. George, is still living. |