Simon Schmitt
Simon Schmitt was born in Germany August 16, 1839. He immigrated to America with his parents, John P. and Anna M. Schmitt in 1855, who located in Auglaize County, Ohio, and remained three years, or until in 1858, when they moved to Shelby County and settled in Van Buren Township, where John P. Schmitt died in 1864. Simon Schmitt, subject of this sketch, is a carpenter by trade, which he made his vocation until in the fall of 1881, when he purchased and moved on the farm in section 3, Dinsmore Township, and has since been giving his attention to farming. April, 1869, he married Mrs. Margaret McFarland, née Suber, by whom he has four children, two sons and two daughters. His wife departed this life December 16, 1880.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883