About Allan Thomson
Lived 1788 – 1884 (aged 95–96). Allan Thomson was a businessperson.
Allan Thomson (1788–1884) was a banker, railroad executive, and city councilman of Wilmington, Delaware.
In 1838, Thomson served as treasurer for three of the four railroads that built the first rail link from Philadelphia south: the Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad, the Delaware and Maryland Railroad, and the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, for which service he is named on the 1839 Newkirk Viaduct Monument.
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Allan Thomson was born in 1788.
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Allan Thomson died in 1884.
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Allan Thomson was a businessperson.
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