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From: "Sharon Symons" <>
Subject: [SIMONS] Warner and Beers History of Brant County 1883
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:07:44 +0100

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S. SIMMONS, grain dealer and merchant, Brantford, was born in England,
March 7th, 1826, and is a son of Samuel Simmons, a farmer, of England.
He came to Canada in 1834, and after sojourning a short time at
Cobourg, Ont., bought a farm in the County of Oxford, Ont., where he
died May 5th, 1853. He married Jane Bacon, also a native of England, by
whom he had a family of nine children, three still living, and the
subject of this biography is the only one of them residing in this
county. Mrs. Samuel Simmons died in 1854, just a year after her husband.
Our subject was brought up on the farm in Oxford County with his father
from 1834 till 1852, a period of eighteen years. he then came to
Brantford, and a year later entered the grocery and grain business,
which he has carried on with sufficient success to enable him always to
pay his debts and have something left. He is known throughout the county
and elsewhere as a large buyer of grain. In 1852 he married Ann Topham,
a native of Ireland, and had a family of seven, five of whom survive,
viz.: John F., with his father in business; Mary J.; James H., also with
his father; Margaret L., wife of Wm. E. Mann, coal merchant, Brantford;
and Elizabeth. Mrs. S. is a member of Wellington Street Methodist
Church, and Mr. S. regularly attends services in the same church. He is
a Reformer in politics, but is too busy to become an office-holder.

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