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S.
C. Simonton, Jr.
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biography
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S. C. Simonton, Jr.,
a farmer, post-office Clark, Penn., son of Maj. S. C. and Silva
(Gleason) Simonton, was born February 27, 1851, in Clarksville. Penn.:
was educated at the Edinboro Normal School, in Erie County, Penn., and
completed his education and graduated from the Iron City College, of
Pittsburgh, in 1870. In the same year our subject located at Sharon and
engaged in the insurance business. In 1881 he was elected prothonotary
of Mercer County, and at the expiration of his term of office he resumed
his insurance business at Sharon, which he continued until 1886, when he
removed to his farm in Hickory Township, on the line of Pymatuning, and
is now engaged in general farming. Mr. Simonton was married February 19,
1879, to Alda, daughter of Alonza Alderman, of Sharon, and by this union
they have one child, William W. Our subject is a member of the K. of P.,
Lodge No. 398, of Sharon, and in politics is a stanch Democrat.
History
of Mercer Co. PA 1888 p.875
Transcribed
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