Otto Egbert Simonson
Silver Bow County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

Butte Montana has a wide-awake, energetic business element 
that is prosperous and progressive.  among the leaders in 
his line of commercial and industrial activity in Butte 
must be mentioned Mr. Otto Egbert Simonson who since 1896 
has conducted of the the best livery establishments to be 
found anywhere.  Mr. Simonson came to Montana when a young 
man of twenty, fired with ambition and a determination to 
succeed and he achieved that result.

The first year he spent at Helena, and left there to go to 
Elliston in both of which cities he was employed as a 
teamster.  Subsequently he secured work in the mines at 
Basin and from that place moved to Butte and for several 
years was a hoisting engineer in the mines of this 
section.  Deciding that greater profit and satisfaction 
could be gained through independent business operations, 
Mr. Simonson cast about for an  opening suited to his 
tastes and decided upon the establishment of his present 
business.

Mr. Simonson is a native of Wisconsin, his birth occurring 
at Stoughton, that state, March 21, 1866.  His parents, 
Engebret and Carrie Simonson were born in Norway, came to 
America after their marriage and settled in Wisconsin upon 
arrival in this country.  They had a family of seven 
children, four daughters and three sons, and when Otto, 
the youngest was thirteen, the family moved to Minnesota, 
the parents living there the remainder of their lives, 
the mother's demise occurring in 1881 and the father's 
in 1904.

The marriage of Otto Egbert Simonson and Mary Buckley 
took place at Basin, Montana, May 11, 1898.  Two sons and 
one daughter were born.  Helen is now a high school 
student, while Raymond is attending business college and 
Earl, the youngest is a student in the graded schools.

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