George W. Thom Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: THOM
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 966

     GEORGE W. THOM, a contractor and builder of Salem, N. H.,
has been thus engaged for more than thirty .years. The character of
his work has been such he has always commanded a liberal patronage
of the people, and hundreds of buildings stand as a monument to his in-
dustry and integrity.
     Mr. Thom was born in Salem, N. H., November 25, 1848, and is
a son of Isaac and Louise Ann (Whittier) Thom, and a grandson of
Joseph Thom, who was born in Windham, N. H. Isaac Thom was born
in Salem in 1813, and through his active career was a farmer and a
stone cutter. He also served for a time as overseer of the poor.
    George W. Thom received his educational training in the public
schools and in Pinkerton Academy, after which he learned the trade of
a carpenter. He worked as cutter in a shoe factory for ten years, but
during the past thirty years has been engaged in contracting and build-.
ing. He served two years as selectman of his town, and has always
been deeply interested in the improvement of the community.
In 1870, Mr. Thom was married to Miss Mary G. Austin, a daugh-
ter of George W. Austin. Her death occurred in 1894, and she is sur-
vived by her husband and two children: Joseph I., born in October,
1872; and Flora A., born in 18?9. Mr. Thom is affiliated with the Pil-
grim Fathers, and the Patrons of Husbandry. .

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