Jackson County IA Archives Biographies.....Simpson, Washington 
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Ken Wright wright@prestontel.com February 22, 2011, 7:02 pm

Source: Maquoketa Excelsior
Author: Onlooker

Maquoketa Excelsior, Maquoketa, Iowa, March 29, 1901

FROM THE VIEW OF THE ONLOOKER
Onlooker was honored last Monday by a call from Washington Simpson, another 
Jackson county pioneer and constant patron of the Maquoketa Excelsior. He said 
he located in Iowa first in 1851, coming from his home in Pennsylvania to 
Bellevue entirely by river. The trip took about sixteen days and cost him 
sixteen dollars and he said that the board was excellent too. He located in 
Zwingle and from his home there saw the land all around him settled, towns 
spring up and civilization advance steadily westward until 1884 when he moved 
to Maquoketa, his present residence. A life long Republican, he cast his first 
vote for Gen. Winfield Scott in 1852 and his second for John C. Fremont.


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