BIO: George W. SIMPSON, 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, page 309.
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  GEORGE W. SIMPSON, M.D., Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
in Brady township, December 31, 1844, son of James and Anna M. 
(Goodman) Simpson. His paternal ancestry was Irish. His grandfather, 
Alexander Simpson, came to America with his family about 1786, and 
settled in Huntingdon county, where he and his wife spent the remainder 
of their lives. At the time of their emigration, their son James 
Simpson was about a year old. Other sons of Alexander Simpson were: 
Robert, of McKeesport, Pa., married Catherine Houck; and Foster, 
resided in Henderson township, where he died in the fifties. His 
daughters were Mrs. John Westbrook; Mrs. Caleb Armitage; and Mrs. 
William Copeland. James Simpson was educated in the rural schools of 
his time, and was all his life a farmer of Brady township. He was an 
intelligent and active man, interested in local progress, and served 
the township for several terms as a school director. He married Anna M. 
Goodman, a native of Berks county, Pa., and had ten children: Samuel 
G., who died at the age of sixty-three; Mary A. (Mrs. A. V. Westbrook); 
James A., deceased; William H., of Mercer county, Ill., served in the 
war of the Rebellion as second lieutenant of Company H, Fifteenth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and as captain of Company F, One Hundred and 
Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was seriously wounded at the 
battle of Gettysburg; David R., of Mill Creek, served in the same war 
as private of Company I, One Hundred and Second Illinois Volunteers; 
Alfred, died aged eighteen; John M., of Mill Creek; George W., M.D.; 
Andrew, of Mill Creek; and Martha (Mrs. Edward Sharrer), of Mercer 
county, Ill. James Simpson died in 1862; Mrs. Simpson died in 
Philadelphia about 1889.
  Dr. Simpson received his literary education in the public schools of 
Henderson township, and at the Kishacoquillas Seminary, in Mifflin 
county. His medical training was begun under Dr. S. L. McCarthy, of 
Mill Creek, and at the Jefferson Medical College, where he matriculated 
in 1873, and from which he graduated in 1876. Since March, 1876, he has 
been continuously in practice at Mill Creek, and for the past ten years 
has been also surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He has 
served for twelve years on the board of pension examiners for 
Huntingdon county. In 1863, when he had barely attained his majority, 
he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry, served 
about six months, and was discharged at Harrisburg, Pa. He is a member 
of Post 127, G. A. R. For many years he has been connected with the 
I.O.O.F. The Doctor is a member of the International Association of 
Railway Surgeons. He is a Democrat; he has served the township as 
school director.
  Dr. George W. Simpson was married in Philadelphia, May 23, 1882, to 
Harriet, daughter of Henry and Abbie (Law) Pratt. Their children are: 
Frederick P.S., born September 20, 1883; and Jay Africa, born May 3, 
1886. Mrs. Simpson's father, Henry Pratt, was a native of 
Massachusetts; his wife was born in Connecticut. They resided for many 
years in Pennsylvania. Mr. Pratt died in Mill Creek in August, 1883; 
his wife died in 1874, in Philadelphia.