The 1880 Census states that Simon and both of his parents were born in Baden, Germany.
330In 1885, S.P. Werner was a Census Assessor for his area.
Simon had two land patents at Moran, MN. The first was from 20 Aug 1885, and the second was from 12 May 1905.
622He took in and raised Walter and Monroe Brown, two of his sister Catharine’s children after her death in 1892.
The 1900 US Census states that he is naturalized.
The year 1877, when the Town of Moran was established, found a number of pioneers living along the valley of the Long Prairie river in the new town. In this early group were J. H. Cates, John Senti, Lucien and Wallace Wolf, John and William Jacobs, Adeline and Hartwell Dain, Simon P. Werner, Martin Diedrick, Omer Morehouse, Frank Newkirk, James Price, Theodore and Philo Powell, George Cass, and probably others whose names we may recall before the series of articles on this town is completed.
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