Individual Details

He attended the public schools in his native town. In 1864 he came to Charlestown and for ten years was in the employ of the Middlesex Railway Company. He then engaged in the retail grocery business in Somerville, Massachusetts. In 1882 he established himself in the confectionery business at Cambridge. Afterwards he became a member of the firm of H. J. Bushway Ice Company. At the end of five years he sold his interests in the ice business to Mr. Bushway and retired from active business. He is a member of Putnam Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Cambridge Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Cambridge Cotnmandery, Knights Templar ; Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine; Howard Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Bunker Hill Encampment of Charlestown ; Cambridge Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 'Uncle Ev'; This picture shows up on p.2126 in "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts"

Birth	2 Mar 1845	Rumney, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
Residence	Bet 1864 and 1874	Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	15 Oct 1873	Florence Simpson
Census	19 Apr 1910	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Spouse	Florence Simpson (1852 - )
Child	Lewis Simpson (1879 - )

Father	Hugh Beaton Simpson (1805 - 1879)
Mother	Sarah Ann Edmunds (1811 - 1882)
Sibling	Clinton Bradshaw Simpson (1840 - 1908)
Sibling	Mary Carrie Simpson (1849 - 1872)