Corwin Thompson

Corwin C. Thompson (1826 - August 2, 1897) was a native of Rochester, New York who became prominent in the lumber business in Chicago, Illinois. In 1880 he was elected vice president of the Lumbermen's Exchange.

His father was an early manufacturer of carriages. The family moved to the Connecticut Western Reserve near Cleveland, Ohio, in 1837. Thompson apprenticed as a carriage maker with his father until he was twenty-one. He moved to Chicago in 1859. He was originally a member of the Whig Party (United States) and later a supporter of the Republican Party (United States).

Thompson died in Chicago at the age of seventy-one years and four months.