Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

JOHN A. SIMPSON stands six feet four inches, in his stockings, and is a
splendid specimen of Kentucky manhood.  He was born Jan. 8, 1872, near
Tama City, Iowa.  When John was 10 years old his father emigrated to
Kentucky, settling in Pendleton County, near Doudton, at which place he
yet resides.  John worked on a farm until he was grown, and went to
school at the old Fairview school house.  He is the third child in a 
family of five.  His father, J. C. Simpson, is a leading citizen of 
West Pendleton.  Besides his common school education he took an 
18-months course in Owingsville Normal and Business College, after 
which he began teaching in the common schools of Grant and Pendleton 
Counties.  Altogether, he taught five terms of school.  Growing tired 
of teaching he went West.  It was there that he learned the trade of 
jeweler.  In the winter and spring of 1899 he attended the Bradley 
Polytechnic Institute at Peoria, Ill.  In July of the same year he came 
to Williamstown and entered into a partnership with J. Glascock in the 
jewelry department of Glascock's store.  He remained with Glascock 
until January, 1900, when the partnership was dissolved and he entered 
business for himself.  He is now located at the corner of Main and 
Falmouth Streets and is doing a business in his line second to none in 
the town or county.  He is sober, industrious and attentive to business,
and has made many new friends since coming to this place.

Simpson Glascock
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Owingsville-Bath-KY Pendleton-KY IL IA

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