| Death of Alvan A. Simonds
Daniel Simonds received a dispatch this morning, announcing the death of his brother, Alvan A. Simonds of Dayton, Ohio. For over two years, the deceased had been ailing from cerebral hemorrage of the brain and, during the last six months, had been in Flint, Mich., where he died, this morning. The funeral will be held at Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday. A. A. Simonds, or "Gus," as his friends and familiarly called him, was well known in this city, having lived here till 1874, when he resigned as treasurer of the Simonds Manufacturing company, to go to Dayton, Ohio, to engage in the manufacture of machine knives, where he conducted a large business. Mr. Simonds was about 58 years of age and a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted in Co. B, 15th regiment Mass. Volunteers, on July 12, 1861, and served honorably as a corporal until he was mustered out Aug. 12, 1864. With the late R. E. Bowen of Milford, he was captured by the rebels after the battle of Gettysburg, but escaped while on the march from Richmond to Andersonville, joining the Union lines near Winchester after living in the mountains for 24 days. In the volume, "Fitchburg in the War of the Rebellion," mention is made of his being wounded, but it was not serious. He experienced some of the hardest fighting in which the Army of the Potomac was engaged. He leaves a wife, one son, and three daughters -- the eldest of whom is married and lives in Madison, Wis. |