Arthur W. Thompson

(1886-1970) born near Bradshaw, York County, and lived at York and Lincoln. Auctioneer, directed his efforts from 1907 to 1953 to farm sales and general auctions as well as livestock, considered the leading purebred livestock auctioneer in the United States and Canada after 1921, with more than 7,500 sales, he established a world record of selling 316 carloads of feeder cattle in one day, and three times achieved sales that totaled more than $1 million in one day; published several articles and delivered numerous lectures to educational groups. Consult World's Who's Who (Sampson, 1949) 1681 and Time, December 25, 1950, pp. 91-92 and Omaha World Herald Magazine, April 26, 1953, p. G-4 and obituary in Nebraska Cattleman, Vol 26 (June 1970) 50.

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