Source: Tennessee – The Volunteer State 1769-1923, Vol. II, page 290
S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.

DR. WINTON LEE THOMPSON, member of the dental profession in Chattanooga, was born in Pikeville, Tennessee, in 1890, his parents being William S. and Musa (Gilbert) Thompson. His father and his grandfather were born on the same place and engaged in farming there, the great-grandfather having taken up his abode on the old family homestead in pioneer times. The Gilberts were also among the earliest settlers of Tennessee, living at Spencer, where representatives of the name followed farming and merchandising. Winton Lee Thompson was a pupil in the schools of his native city and afterward attended Peoples College before entering the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated with the D.D.S. degree in 1912. He then located for practice in that city, where he remained for seven years. Returning to Tennessee, he remained for a brief period at Pikeville, but in 1919 he came to Chattanooga, where he has become established in his chosen profession.

On the 21st of March, 1915, at Pikeville, Dr. Thompson was united in marriage to Miss Cora Ruth Tollett, a daughter of William Tollett, a prosperous and popular farmer and one of the old-time residents of Pikeville, the family having settled there as pioneers. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson have one child, Winton Lee, Jr. In his political views Dr. Thompson is an independent republican and while at Pikeville filled the views Dr. Thompson is an independent republican and while at Pikeville filled the office of recorder. He belongs to the Dental Society of Ohio and fraternally he is a Mason, who has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of York Rite. Something of the nature of his recreation and diversion is indicated in the fact that he is a member of the Wright’s Mineral Springs Fishing Club.

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