Ira Bowen Thompson
THOMPSON, IRA BOWEN, lawyer and legislator, was born April 9, 1889, at Bay Minette, Baldwin County; son of Albert Moreno and Mary Laura (Crabtree) Thompson; grandson of Noel and Mary (Lltchfield) Thompson, of Bay Minette, and of Henry Franklin and Martha (Dow) Crabtree, of Molino, Escambla County, Fla. He is of English and Irish descent, one of his ancestors being Archibald Murray, who, with his wife, emigrated from Ireland to North Carolina. He was educated in the schools of Bay Minette, and graduated, 1910, from the Meridian male college, in Mississippi, with the B. S. degree. He is a lawyer. He represented Baldwin County in the legislature of 1915. During the European war he served as a captain in the U. S. Army. He is a Democrat; and a Methodist. Married: Mary Irene, daughter of George Walker and Ida (Talmage) Carroll, of Monroe, N. C., formerly of Attalla. Residence: Bay Minette.
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