SIMON WOODHOUSE, proprietor of the Bloomington Hotel, good sample rooms and livery; born in Staffordshire, England, in 1821; a son of John Woodhouse and Ann Newton; came to America when a boy with parents, and located in Pennsylvania; came to Wisconsin in 1837, and located in Grant Co., and engaged in mining, farming and hotel-keeping; established the Bloomington Hotel in 1866, which he has managed successfully ever since. Enlisted in the army August, 1861, as a Corporal, Co. F, 7th W. V. I. He is an enterprising man, cheerful and obliging. Six brothers came together to Grant Co., four of whom are living, and all successful business men.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.