from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of March 24, 1892
Republican candidates for county office:
was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1839. He came to Hendricks county when he was five years of age with his parents. When he was ten years old, his father died and being the oldest child, he was the main assistant of his mother to raise the family of five children. Many a night he read by the hickory-bark fire in that cabin in the woods. In '59-60 he attended the Danville Academy. He taught school five years before and after the war. He enlisted in the 55th regiment Indiana volunteers and was wounded and captured at Richmond, Ky., in '62. He was paroled in a few weeks and discharged Oct. 25. He again enlisted in the 3rd Indiana Cavalry and served until discharged July 20th, 1865. He is a farmer and no one stands higher in his community than Thompson Henry.