BIO: Alfred SIMONS, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 357-358.
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  ALFRED SIMONS, Mount Union, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Perry 
county, Pa., May 13, 1832, and is a son of Samuel and Mary (Keck) 
Simons, natives and life-long residents of Perry county. Samuel Simons 
was during most of his life a shoemaker. During later years, and until 
his retirement from active pursuits, he was a watchman on the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Simons was the father of the following named 
children: Alfred; James; William; Elmire (Mrs. John Coulter); Samuel 
R.; and one that died in infancy. Mr. Simons died at the age of 
seventy-five, and his wife at the age of sixty-nine.
  The school education of Alfred Simons was imparted in the common 
schools of Mifflin and Huntingdon counties. At the age of eighteen, he 
began to learn cabinet-making and undertaking, which have always been 
his employments. He has for many years successfully carried on business 
in Mount Union. Mr. Simons is a Republican, and has served three years 
as a member of the borough council. He is a member of Mount Union Lodge 
No. 877, I.O.O.F., and has been an honored citizen of Mount Union 
borough since 1860.
  Alfred Simons married Lucy A., daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Potter) Pineus. Mr. Simons is a member of the Presbyterian church, in 
which he has been an elder for a number of years, and also assistant 
superintendent of the Sunday-school. The parents of Mrs. Simons were 
natives of the State of Maine. Her father was a foundryman, to which 
business he gave most of the years of his activity. He was the father 
of the following named children: Alpheus; Lucy (Mrs. Simons); Lyman; 
Mary (Mrs. R. Hesser); and James. Mrs. Pineus is deceased; her husband 
survives her, and is in sound health, at the venerable age of eighty-
eight.