Biography of Jonathan Simon, page 501.  History De Kalb County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, 
Chicago, 1885.

Jonathan Simon, farmer, Butler Township, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1811; a son of George and 
Elizabeth (Hewitt) Simon.  He was reared and educated in his native county, and in 1836 married Rachel Yarian.  The 
same year he came with his father’s family to Indiana and entered land, but returned to Ohio and remained a year 
and a half.  In 1838, with his wife and one child, Polly, he came to DeKalb County and settled on the place where he 
now lives.  He built a small log-cabin in which he lived three years.  He has cleared the township.  He is a prominent 
man, and has held several of the minor offices of trust, and has been appointed and acted as guardian for several 
orphan children.  He is a self-make man, and now owns 240 acres of good land, besides settling homes on several of 
his children.  To Mr. and Mrs. Simon have been born ten children, seven of whom are living---Polly, wife of John 
Miller; Mary Ann, wife of Lycurgus Bowman; David, Benjamin F., Jacob G., Jonas and Sarah O., wife of Charles 
Ogden.  The deceased are Alice M., wife of Samuel Dudley, Sarah C., and Benjamin. Politically, Mr. Simon is a 
Repblican.  He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church.

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