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Simon Sullivan, son of Jeremiah Sullivan and Bridget Torpy, was born in Franklin County, New York on May 4, 1863.  Jeremiah and Bridget were parents of five children:  Simon, Mary, Ellen and Margaret.  Thomas died as a small boy.  After the death of Bridget on October 2, 1867, Simon became a foster child in a neighboring home where he learned the caring of a dairy herd.  He also helped with other farm work and received his schooling.  When he became of age, he left New York state for Chicago, Illinois where he was employed by the city streetcar company.  He was a driver on the horse-drawn cars.  After several years in Chicago, he left for Randolph, Iowa where his uncle and aunt, Richard Torpy and Mary Sullivan owned a farm.  His sister, Ellen, lived close by.  She had married George Workman.  Simon married Eliza Belle Longinaker at Randolph, Iowa on February 26, 1895 in the home of her parents, David Longinaker and Mariah Roby.  Belle was born at Winterset, Iowa on March 31, 1865 and came with her parents to Randolph at an early age.  After their marriage, Simon and Belle lived one year in Fremont County, Iowa, then Pottawttamie County, living near Council Bluffs and Oakland.  There, Inez, Katherine, Jerry, Harry and Robert were born.  Harry died at the age of one.  Simon, Belle and four children moved back to Fremont County where Alice and Charles were born.  They lived there until 1913 when they came to Elgin and made their home on farms in Park Center and the Star Community.  In 1920 they moved into Elgin.  Simon died May 17, 1948 and Belle on July 24, 1962.  Inez married Joe Meis; Jerry married Iva Scott; Robert married Helen Olmsted; Alice married William Wirges; Charles married Colette Taylor.

Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in Mar 2008