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Simonton may refer to: *Places ** Simonton, Texas, city in Fort Bend County, Texas ** Simonton Lake, Indiana, census-designated place in Elkhart County, Indiana *People ** Ann Simonton, writer, lecturer and feminist media activist ** Ashbel Green Simonton, (1833-1867), American Presbyterian minister and missionary ** Charles Bryson Simonton (1838-1911), member of the United States House of Representatives ** Charles Henry Simonton (1829–1904), United States federal judge ** John Simonton (1943–2005), circuit designer ** Ken Simonton (1979-), American football running back ** O. Carl Simonton, American psycho-oncologist ** Richard Simonton (1915-1979), also known as Doug Malloy, Hollywood businessman and entrepreneur ** William Simonton William Simonton (February 12, 1788 – May 17, 1846) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. William Simonton was born in West Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Dr. William Sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simonton, Texas
Simonton is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. Simonton is located at the intersection of Farm roads 1093 and 1489, approximately fourteen miles northwest of Richmond, Texas and five miles west of Fulshear, Texas. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city population was 647, down from 814 at the 2010 census. History The Simonton Plantation The first event that shaped Simonton's history was when James Simonton and his brother Theophilus bought 4000 acres of land in Northwest Fort Bend County in the 1840s. The two Simonton brothers built a plantation next to the Brazos River. They raised cotton. The year 1850 is officially designated as the founding year for the Simonton since the 1850 US Census showed the two brothers, their mother, Mary, and Theophilus's wife and two sons residing on the property. Another brother, Joseph, and his family moved to the plantation in the 1850s. In 1857, Theophilus helped char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simonton Lake, Indiana
Simonton Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,678 at the 2010 census. History The community takes its name from the lake. Simonton Lake was named for Samuel Simonton, a 19th-century farmer. Geography Simonton Lake is located at (41.745799, -85.971499). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 11.68%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 4,053 people, 1,567 households, and 1,181 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,636 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 94.77% White, 1.63% African American, 0.25% Native American, 1.55% Asian, 0.64% from other races, and 1.16% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.52% of the population. There were 1,567 households, out of which 31.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.2% were marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Simonton
Ann J. Simonton (born 1952) is an American writer, lecturer, media activist, and former fashion model. She founded and coordinates the non-profit group "Media Watch", which challenges what they see as racism, sexism, and violence in the media through education and action. Simonton has published two autobiographical chapters, '' I Never Told Anyone'' and ''Her Wits About Her''. She has also written and produced two educational videos, one of which, ''Don't Be a TV: Television Victim'', received a Silver Apple Award from the National Educational Video and Film Festival in 1995. Biography Simonton began as a fashion model in Los Angeles and vaulted to the top of the modelling world in New York City in the early 1970s. On June 24, 1971, she was gang raped at knifepoint in Morningside Park on her way to a modeling assignment. This event informed her activism to help end sexual assaults on women. Simonton became a radical feminist activist, and has been arrested and jailed 11 times for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashbel Green Simonton
Ashbel Green Simonton (January 20, 1833 – December 9, 1867) was a North-American Presbyterian minister and missionary, the first missionary to settle a Protestant church in Brazil, Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil). Early life Simonton was born in West Hanover, southern Pennsylvania, and spent his childhood on the family's estate, named Antigua. His parents were the doctor and politician William Simonton (elected twice to Congress) and Mrs. Martha Davis Snodgrass (1791–1862), daughter of James Snodgrass, a Presbyterian minister, who was the pastor of the local church. Ashbel was named after Ashbel Green, president of New Jersey College. He was one among nine brothers and sisters. The boys (William, John, James, Thomas and Ashbel) used to call themselves the "quinque fratres" (five brothers). One of his brothers, James Snodgrass Simonton, four years older than Ashbel, was also a missionary to Brazil, spending three years as a teacher in the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bryson Simonton
Charles Bryson Simonton (September 8, 1838 – June 10, 1911) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 9th congressional district of Tennessee. Biography Simonton was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, son of William and Catherine "Katie" Ferguson Simonton. He graduated from Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina in August 1859. He married Mary Andros "Minnie" McDill on October 16, 1866. He had five children, Anna Simonton, Ella Simonton, William McDill Simonton, Charles Pressley Simonton, and Nannie May Simonton. Career Simonton enlisted as a private in Company C, Ninth Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army in 1861. He subsequently became second lieutenant, and then captain. He was severely wounded during the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862 and disabled from any further active duty during the war. He was elected clerk of the circuit court of Tipton County in March 1870. Simonton read law, and was admitted to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Simonton
Charles Henry Simonton (July 11, 1829 – April 25, 1904) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. Education and career Born on July 11, 1829, in Charleston, South Carolina, Simonton graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) in 1849. He read law in 1851. He entered private practice in Charleston from 1851 to 1886. He was an assistant clerk for the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1851 to 1852. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1858 to 1862. He was a Colonel in the Confederate States Army from 1861 to 1865. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1865 to 1866, and from 1877 to 1886. Federal judicial service Simonton received a rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Simonton
John Stayton Simonton Jr. (June 24, 1943 – November 25, 2005) was a circuit designer, author of electronics articles, and founder of PAiA Electronics, a manufacturer of analog synthesizer kits. He lived in Arcadia, Oklahoma. Simonton was born in Honolulu and grew up in New Orleans. In 1965 he graduated from Louisiana Tech University with degrees in electrical engineering and psychology. In 1967 he began working on the first computerized jet engine test facility in Oklahoma at the Tinker Air Force Base. He then founded PAiA Electronics as a mail order electronics kit company. Simonton began publishing ''Polyphony'' magazine in 1975, which later became '' Electronic Musician''. Simonton was diagnosed with esophageal cancer Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when swallowing, a hoarse voice ... in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Simonton
Ken Simonton III (born June 7, 1979) is a former American football running back who last played in the CFL for the Calgary Stampeders after a brief career in the NFL and the NFL Europe. Early life Simonton's family has a history of baseball. His father, Ken Simonton II played in the Boston Red Sox farm system in 1975. His brother Benji Simonton spent eight seasons in the San Francisco Giants and Anaheim Angels organizations and his cousin Cy Simonton played three seasons in the Seattle Mariners organization. Simonton originally intended to play both baseball and football at Oregon State. Simonton was a two-sport (football and baseball) star for the Pittsburg High School Pirates. As a sophomore, Simonton rushed for 1,135 yards in 10 games on 105 carries for an average of 10.8 yards per carry. In his junior year, he rushed for 785 yards in eight games on 47 carries for an average of 16.7 yards per carry. For his senior season, Simonton rushed for 960 yards on 92 carries for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Simonton
Richard Simonton (1915–1979), also known under the pseudonym Doug Malloy, was a Hollywood businessman and entrepreneur, known for his involvement in the Hollywood community, his rescue of the steamboat '' Delta Queen'', his work in preserving the work of musicians in the Welte-Mignon piano rolls and for founding the American Theatre Organ Society. Among piercing enthusiasts he is also known as an early pioneer of the contemporary resurgence in body piercing. Early life and professional career Richard Simonton was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1915. His father died when he was three, and his mother subsequently moved to Seattle, where he grew up in the difficult conditions of the Great Depression. He showed an early aptitude for music and audio engineering, earning money in high school by tuning pipe organs. He later worked for the Masterphone Sound Company, which installed sound systems in silent theatres adapting to the new talking pictures. Always of an inventive and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Simonton
William Simonton (February 12, 1788 – May 17, 1846) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. William Simonton was born in West Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Dr. William Simonton and Jane Wiggins."American Historical Company. ''History of Pittsburgh and Environs, Volume 1.'' The American Historical Society, Inc. New York and Chicago, 1922. pg. 119 He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1810 and practiced his profession while residing on his farm near Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Simonton was elected auditor of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1823 and served three years. He was one of the original supporters of the free-school system established by the act of 1834. Simonton was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses. He died in South Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, in 1846. Interment in the Old Hanover Cemetery, north of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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