Background
Simonton, John Wiggins was born on December 2, 1826 in Hanover Tp., Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Honorary William and Martha (Snodgrass) Simonton.
Simonton, John Wiggins was born on December 2, 1826 in Hanover Tp., Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Honorary William and Martha (Snodgrass) Simonton.
Preparatory education Strasburg, Pennsylvania, Academy and Lafayette College. Graduate Princeton, 1850 (Master of Arts, Princeton. Doctor of Laws, Franklin and Marshall).
Admitted to bar, 1853. Practiced law, State and United States courts. District attorney, Dauphin Company, 1865-1868.
Judge 12th judicial district Pennsylvania, from January 1881.
President Pennsylvania State Bar Association, 1895. President History Society of Dauphin Company.
Married Sarah Hoyer Kunkel, July 8, 1855.