Waldo Thompson (1813-1892) was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, and died in Lynn, Massachusetts. In the late 1830s, he worked in a shoe factory in Lynn. In 1843, he opened a country store in Swampscott, Massachusetts. He also served as postmaster in Swampscott for fifteen years, from 1846-1861. At the same time he was running the store, he founded his real estate business, Waldo Thompson & Son, buying and selling homes in Lynn and Swampscott.

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