Brief Life History of John Lewis
When John Lewis Simons was born on 1 August 1872, in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, his father, John Jackson Simons, was 46 and his mother, Lucinda Marie Betts, was 29. He married Minnie B. Walker in 1891. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Meade, South Dakota, United States for about 5 years and Township 5 Range 15, Meade, South Dakota, United States in 1940. He died on 31 December 1944, in Sturgis, Meade, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Sturgis, Meade, South Dakota, United States.
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- John Simons, "United States Census, 1940"
- John Louis Simons, "Find A Grave Index"
- John Simons in entry for Thomas Simons, "South Dakota, School Records, 1879-1970"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1889
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Meade, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Meade, South Dakota, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
North German, Dutch, Flemish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Simon . This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). In North America it has also absorbed various European cognates and their derivatives, e.g. Slovenian Simončič and Simonič, Slovak Šimončič and Šimonič (see Simoncic and Simonic ). Compare Simonds .
History: This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its altered form Simonds in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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