Hon. John Wiggins Simonton and Sarah H. Kunkel

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Husband Hon. John Wiggins Simonton ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1830 - West Hanover Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Hon. William Simonton, M.D. (1788-1846) 2 3
         Mother: Martha Davis Snodgrass (      -1862) 4

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       Marriage: 8 Jul 1856 1 2

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Wife Sarah H. Kunkel ^{1 2 5}

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         Father: George Kunkel (1784-1850) 6 7
         Mother: Catharine Ziegler (1797-1833) 6 7

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Children

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1 F Anne Simonton ^{8 9}

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         Spouse: Gilbert Addams Beaver (1869-      ) 9 10 11
           Marr: 12 May 1896 8 9

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. John Wiggins Simonton

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His preparatory education was received at the country school near Hanover Church, continued at the Strasburg Academy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, then at Lafayette College, Easton, graduating at the College of New Jersey in 1850. His choice of profession was the law, and was entered as a student with Hon. Hamilton Alricks at Harrisburg, admitted to practice at the April term, 1853. With a very brief interval his residence was thereafter at Harrisburg.
He never sought an office, his ambition was to be a thorough lawyer, and as such win success, and before office sought him he was considered a safe counselor as well as capable one. He was chosen district attorney in 1866. In 1881, he was elected president judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, to succeed Judge Pearson, and he was re-elected in 1891 for the term of ten years. Every opinion handed down after he held this important position showed an intimate knowledge of the laws of the state, of his literary ability, acute perception of such facts as are necessary in considering cases, and in nearly every instance were sustained by the higher court.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 599.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 433.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 540, 599.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 540.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 358.

6 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 514.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 357.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 16.

9 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 113.

10 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 23.

11 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 483.