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A biography/family history of Samuel Simms is included in "Montana, Its Story and Biography", Vol 3, pages 885 & 886.
Samuel was born, 5 May 1863, youngest of 16 children of John and Mary (Pennington) Simms. John was a miner and lived for the most part in Lancashire. John died in May 1886, Mary died in 1894.
Samuel was educated in Manchester and as a boy learned the brick laying trade. On 20 May 1886, he arrived in New York and worked for a time in Buffalo. On 1 Jun 1887, he arrived in Great Falls, MT. His first employment was in the mines at Sand Coulee. Later he was a bricklayer in Great Falls. In 1902 he began ranching ten miles east of Great Falls.
On 9 Oct 1894, Helena, MT, Samuel married Miss Susan Heher. Simms children: Susan (Mrs. Edward Kelton); Frederick (m. Edith Forrest), San Diego, CA.
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