Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Iroquois Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   JOHN A. SIMPSON, farmer and stock dealer, is a native of Orleans 
County, Vermont, was born in 1855, and is a son of Alexander and 
Margaret (Paterson) Simpson, the former a native of Scotland, the latter of Vermont; they are now living in Illinois and farming.
   In 1875, John A. Simpson married Miss Eliza, daughter of John and 
Mary Antcliff, and a native of England.  To this union has been granted
two children--Alice M. and Grace J.  Mr. Simpson farms upon 320 acres
of rented land.  He cultivates 170 acres of corn, forty of oats and 
forty tons of hay; raises about 140 head of hogs, and fifty of cattle
each year.  Mr. Simpson has 696 acres of unimproved land in Kossuth
County, Iowa, on which tract breaking has now been begun.


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