Thompson Family History

My father, Boyce Thompson, Sr., was the last person to drop-kick extra points for his high school team in Westchester County, N.Y. Drop-kicking, of course, gave way to place kicking after the ball was redesigned to give it a sharper point, which made control of the bounce more difficult. Undaunted, Boyce Thompson, Sr., drop kicked extra [...]

Great grandfather Joseph Edward Thompson must have wanted future generations to find the homes he built as a young man in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1905-06. Why else would he have paid an architect to brand them with his initials, J.E.T.? Unfortunately, the J.E.T. brand, which was painted on the homes, was nowhere to be found on a recent [...]

By the time Patti Toci and her husband bought the Julius Kruttschnitt, Jr., house in Tucson, previous owners had taken virtually everything the family had left behind. Then, one day in the 1960s, a remodeling crew opened a plaster wall and discovered a small piece of uncrumpled paper behind the lathe. “It was a receipt,” Patti [...]