Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1905 — DEATH SUMMONS JERRY SIMPSON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH SUMMONS JERRY SIMPSON

Celebrated Kansas Statesman Passes Away After Long Illness—Began Life as a Sailor. Wichita, Kan., Oct. 24.—Former Congressman Jerry Simpson is dead here after a long Illness. Ex-Congressman Simjieon was born in New Brunswick, on March 31. 1842. At 14 he began life as a sailor, and

during bi* twenty-three years following that pursuit commanded many large vessels on the great lakes. In the civil war he served in the Twelfth Illinois Infantry. He ceme to Kansas in 1878. He was a member of congress from 1891 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1899, being nominated the last time by both the Democrats and Populists. After he left congress he moved to Roswell, N. H., where he engaged up to the time ->f his death in stock farming. He returned to Kansas a month ago and entered a local hospital for treatment. His condition become hopeless ten days ago and since then the patient kept alive principally by sheer force of will. His wife and son were at the bedside at the time of death.

JERRY SIMPSON.