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Albert Pearson Simpson biographical sketch
The History of Fresno County, Paul E Vandor, 1919, page 1456-1457.
ALBERT P. SIMPSON
Quickness of perception, prompt action and ready
wit, prime essentials for a successful auctioneer, are possessed by
Albert P. Simpson, Fresno's leading auctioneer and commission merchant.
Although he was born in Ohio, August 23, 1867, he was reared from
infancy in Adams County, Iowa. Educated in the public schools of Iowa he
entered the mercantile business after completing his schooling, and was
in general merchandise stores at Corning and Mount Etna, Iowa. He also
had experience in the milling business.
In 1888 he went to Los Angeles,
where he was in the employ of the Earl Fruit Company five years. He then
returned to Corning, Iowa, and engaged in farming, but the experience
that so many testify to who have once made their home in California, was
his dissatisfaction with the East after their return thither and a
longing for the West, with its broader life and greater opportunities
for an ambitious, energetic young man desirous of attaining the top of
the ladder of success.
The year 1912 found him again on his way to
California. He went to Madera County and in partnership with E. P. Piper
bought 1,200 acres of the Jones ranch, located in the southern part of
the county, near the San Joaquin River. This they subdivided and sold
off in from one to forty acre tracts. They laid out the town of Trego,
built a store and home and sold all off in two years' time to people,
nearly all of whom came from Iowa. This town which Simpson and Piper put
on the map is now a thriving little place, with school, post office and
irrigation plants.Mr. Simpson and his partner paid $32,000 for the
land and sold it for $75,000. This was the largest deal made in Madera
County in recent years. This land, formerly a grain ranch, is now
planted to alfalfa and fruit.
In 1914 Mr. Simpson came to Fresno and
opened an auction and commission house. He has been very successful and
today stands as a leader in his line of business. In addition, he
auctions live stock in the valley, and in 1917 sold $95,000 worth of
live stock at auction. His largest sale, for $10,635, was turned in five
hours on the F. M. Helm ranch. He has done auction work for the Red
Cross during the late war, giving his services free.
Mrs. Simpson was
before her marriage Martha Morton, a native of Montgomery County, Iowa,
and a daughter of one of the pioneers of that state, a miller bv trade
and the founder of the town of Morton Mills, which was named for him.
The seven children born of their union are by name: Cloyd J., Jr.; Mrs.
Ethel Johnson; Glenn: Beulah, wife of Floyd Knox; Merle; Mildred; and
Ruth, the wife of Stanlev Hopkins.
Mr. Simpson is a great booster for
Fresno County and thinks there is no place in the world that compares
with it. He is a progressive citizen whose identification with Fresno
has been of untold value to its growth and development.
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