John Temple Simpson and Jennie M. Williams

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Husband John Temple Simpson ¹

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           Born: 9 Jun 1852 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph Simpson (1816-Aft 1891) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Greenfield Hutchinson (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 25 Dec 1877 3

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Wife Jennie M. Williams ³

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Children

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1 M Harry Temple Simpson ³

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           Born: 3 Sep 1879 3
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2 M Rowland B. Simpson ³

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           Born: 16 Apr 1883 3
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General Notes: Husband - John Temple Simpson

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He received his education in the common schools. At nine years of age he worked in a rolling-mill, from which he went to a farm for a short time and then went to work in a woolen-mill. At sixteen years of age he commenced upon his life-work by entering the office of the Armstrong Republican, where he remained for three years. He next worked on the East Brady Independent for one year and then went to Pittsburgh, where he worked on the Leader and various other papers of that city. In 1873 he came to Kittanning, opened a job office in January, 1874, and in May, 1876, he and Benjamin Oswald became partners in the Valley Times, whose name was afterward changed to that of The Kittanning Times. In January, 1886, Mr. Simpson purchased his partner's interest and was the editor and proprietor thereafter. The Kittanning Times was a four-page paper, 24 x 36 inches in size and containing twenty-eight columns of choice reading matter and important advertisements. It was a newsy local sheet, independent in politics and having a circulation of over two thousand copies. It was published in the Times building on Friday of each week at one dollar per year. It made a specialty of local news and aimed to present, in brief but interesting paragraphs, the substance of the latest happenings in the borough and the county. It also gave a large amount of selected miscellany valuable to every class and profession; nor was it neglectful of the political news, as it spread before its readers, in concise form, the great or notable political events of the day, with the platforms and movements of every political party asking for the support of the people. A complete job printing department was organized and thoroughly fittted up with first-class machinery and was kept very busy in filling the orders which it was constantly receiving.
In political sentiment Mr. Simpson was a strong republican. He was elected coroner of the county in 1888, and on February, 1890, was elected as one of the justices of the peace for Kittanning. He was a past regent in the Royal Arcanum, past dictator in the Knights of Honor, district deputy in the Knights of Honor, past archon in the Heptasophs, district deputy in the O. U. A. M., and was the representative of District No. 3, Knights of Labor, to the State convention of that organization in 1887.

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General Notes: Wife - Jennie M. Williams

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from Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 382.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 394.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 383.