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GHEHART SIMON was born in Germany in 1801, where he lived on his parents' farm until he reached manhood, when
he went out working at farm labor among his neighbors. In his twenty-seventh year he entered the iPrussian army,
of which he was a member for three years in accordance with the law of that country. At the expiration of his term
of service he returned to the home farm until the year 1855, when he emigrated to America, going to the city of
Milwaukee, residing there some five years. In 1860 he came west to Mt. Vernon, where he took up land. He married
in 1831 Miss Elizabeth Weitz, by whom he had five children, all of whom are living. His wife died some three years
ago at the ripe age of seventy-eight. Mr. Simon, by dint of perseverance and industry during his twenty-two years
residence in Mt. Vernon, has accumulated a handsome competency, giving each one of his sons a farm of 260 acres
on their reaching manhood. Mr. Simon is today a healthy, hale and hearty old gentleman of eighty two summers and
bids fair to live many years, yet universally respected by his neighbors and beloved by his sons, daughters and
numerous grandchildren.
FROM:
The History of Winona County
Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc.
BY: A. T. Andreas
H. H. Hill and Company, Publishers
Chicago 1883.
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