This contains a transcription of the Thompson H. Richardson of Marlboro, NH biography from Biographical Review Volume XXIII: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cheshire and Hillsboro Counties, New Hampshire, Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1897.
Pages 85-86
THOMPSON H. RICHARDSON, who for many years past has been connected with the blanket-mill in Marlboro, was born in Baldwin, Me., March 20, 1819, son of Artemus and Mary (Thompson) Richardson. He belongs to an old Massachusetts family. His paternal grandfather, Israel Richardson, was a son of Thomas Richardson. The maternal grandfather, Thomas Thompson, was a soldier of the Revolution. Artemus Richardson, who was born in Templeton, Mass., in 1780, went to Maine in his youth, and there for several years was employed by a Congregational minister. He afterward owned a farm in the town of Baldwin. This he subsequently sold, and purchased another in Hiram, Me., where he spent his last days, and died at the age of sixty-four years. His wife, Mary, had nine children—Artemus, Nancy, Johanna, George, Mary, Thomas, Thompson H., Betsey F., and Sarah B.
Thompson H. Richardson is the old surviving child of his parents. After receiving a limited education at the district schools in Maine, he worked out upon a farm until 1853. Then he went to California by the Isthmus of Panama. He spent four years in the mines of Nevada County. Going thence to Yuba County, in company with his brothers Artemus and George, he bought a number of claims there, remaining seven years, owning at the same time other claims in the Little York mine. After eleven years’ absense in the gold fields Mr. Richardson returned home with his brother Artemus, having been throughout this time an industrious and successful miner. He settled in Marlboro, and was at once employed in the blanket-mill in that town. He is now the owner of a handsome residence in the centre of the town, where he leads a retired life with his wife and daughter.
Mr. Richardson married Hannah Richardson, whose children are: Horatio S. and Emma A. Horatio S., who is a druggist at Concord, Mass., married Ella Thurston, and has one child, Frank N. Emma A. resides at home. She has great natural talent as an artist, and her parents possess many beautiful specimens of her skill. While Mr. Richardson has constantly voted the Republican ticket, he has never cared for public life. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.