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the public schools of New Canaan and
then went to New York City, where he
learned the plumber's trade, which he followed
there until 1889. In the latter year
he established a plumbing business in
New Canaan with his brother Robert,
under the firm name of Simon Brothers.
This partnership continued until 1898. in
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Wachackma Encampment, the Order of
United American Men ; is past commander
of Richard E. Holcomb Camp,
Sons of Veterans.
Mr. Simon married Margaret Lochmann,
daughter of Christopher Lochmann,
born in Carlstadt, New Jersey, and
they are the parents of one child, Wil-
which year Mr. Simon bought his broth- Ham Henry Simon, born December 3,
er's interest and continued the business 1902. Mayor Simon and his family atalone
until April 1, 1913. On the same tend St. Mark's Episcopal Church of New
day he sold his plumbing business he Canaan.
bought a garage and carried on a taxi
service in addition to automobile repair-
ing. He was in the garage business until
April 1, 1920, and during this time built
up a very large business of this kind for
a town the size of New Canaan. At
times he employed as many as eight men.
Mr. Simon is one of the most public-
BOHANNAN, Dr. John G.,
Physician, Soldier, Legislator.
This ancient race is of Scottish origin,
and its history in the New World embraces
the periods of our Colonial, Rev-
olutionary and National annals, in each
spirited men in New Canaan and for years of which the Bohannans, in the successive
has been active in town affairs. He is a generations, have rendered able, devoted
Republican in politics, and on several ocand patriotic service.
casions has been the choice of his party
for political office. In 1908 he was a mem-
ber of the Board of Burgesses and served
on the committee on sanitation ; in 1909
he was chairman of the Highway Com-
(I) Ambrose Bohannan, founder of the
American branch of the family, was a na-
tive of Scotland and a loyal subject of the
exiled Stuarts. When King Charles II.,
in 1660, was restored to the throne of his
mission. The same year he was appointed ancestors, he rewarded the faithful servplumbing
inspector, the first in the town ice of Ambrose Bohannan with a grant of
of New Canaan. In 1910 Mr. Simon was ten thousand acres of land in the ''Old
elected mayor, and after serving his term Dominion." Resolving to plant, in this
of office resigned from politics until the trackless wilderness, a branch of his race,
spring of 1920 when he was elected mayor in the belief that in the "forest primeval"
a second time and now holds this office, it would attain a development exceeding
He has always discharged his public that of the original stock, Ambrose Bo-
duties satisfactorily, as well as bringing hannan crossed the sea and took up his
satisfaction to his constituents. One of abode in the broad solitude of his newly-
his noteworthy activities was the start-
ing of a movement to erect a triangular
monument of stone, the faces of which
are to represent respectively the soldiers
of the Revolution, the Civil War and the
World War. Mayor Simon is past grand
of Wooster Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and is a member of the
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acquired estate. He was twice married,
his first wife being a Frenchwoman of the
Huguenot family of Le Fondy, and his
second springing from the ancient and
honorable race of the Gregorys. Am-
brose Bohannan passed the remainder of
his life in Virginia, and breathed his last
in the home which he had made for his