Education and Business
Thompson graduated from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio in 1870. In 1873, he attended the New England Conservatory of Music and later continued his musical studies in Germany.
Thompson was rebuffed in an early attempt to sell his songs to a commercial publisher, so he eventually opened the W. L. Thompson Music Company in East Liverpool. By the 1880s, it was one of the most prominent and successful such businesses in the United States. Thousands of music teachers and musicians ordered sheet music, instruments and other supplies from Thompson's store. Thompson later founded a music and publishing company in Chicago.
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