Biographical Sketch of W. J. Simer


Text from Haynes, Nathaniel S. History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois 1819-1914, Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1915. Page 604. This online edition © 1997, James L. McMillan.

Born: Marion County, Illinois, 1849.
Died:

Was educated in the public schools and has applied himself diligently to reading and study at home. Began to work for himself at the age of seventeen and to speak in public at twenty-five. He taught school and has a good library. He resides on his own farm, has always been a public-spirited citizen, and for over thirty years a faithful preacher. He is a man of fine common sense, sweet disposition and kindly impulses, and is popular among all classes and ages of people. His post-office is Kinmundy.


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