BIO:  SIMON, Jacob T., Pendleton Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: SIMON, Jacob T., Pendleton Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
1887, Pendleton Co.

HON. JACOB T. SIMON was born in Owen County, Ky., September 9, 1846, 
and is a son of Francis and Eliza A. (Musselman) Simon.  Francis Simon 
was born September 9, 1808, in a village near Harve de Grace, France;
he immigrated to the United States in 1834, and settled at Morristown, 
N.J., from where he removed to Grant County, Ky., and located near
Corinth, where he was married.  By occupation he was a planter, and 
raised a family of six children, of whom four now survive.  He and his 
wife still live in Grant County.  John Simon, grandfather of our 
subject, was a native of France, and was a soldier in the army of the
first Napoleon.  The maternal grandfather of Jacob T. Simon was a 
native of Kentucky, and a soldier in the war of 1812, in which service 
he enlisted at the age of fifteen; he died in 1866, at the age of 
seventy-eight.  Jacob T. Simon was reared and educated in Owen County, 
Ky., and at the age of nineteen began reading law with H. P. Montgomery,
of Owenton.  He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and began practice at 
Williamstown, Ky., but subsequently, in 1869, moved to Falmouth, 
Pendleton County, where he located permanently in the practice of his 
profession.  In 1874 he was elected county attorney of Pendleton County;
in 1875, 1876 and 1877 was elected city attorney of Falmouth; in 1881 
was elected to represent the county in the Lower House of the 
Legislature; in 1885 he served in the State Senate.  Since that
time he has devoted himself to his law practice.  He owns several fine
farms in Pendleton and adjoining counties, and is largely interested in
stock raising.  September 17, 1872, he was married to Miss Maggie
McClure, daughter of John A. and Eunice K. McClure, of Grant County, 
and one child--Stella R.--has blessed their union.  Mr. Simon is a man
of means, and is closely identified with all enterprises looking to the
growth and development of Falmouth.  He is a member of the Masonic 
order, and also of the A.O.U.W.

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