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GREATER DALLAS AND
VICINITY
SIMrEON W. S. DUNCANx.-The pioneers of a country, the founders
of a business or the originators of any undertaking to promote the material
welfare of a community deserve the gratitude of humanity. The
name of Duncan in Texas suggests a public benefactor in Trinity River
navigation. It was nearly forty years ago, then a young man, that he
came to Dallas, and since then as a pioneer citizen and business man he
has been an important factor in the development of the city, and no man
is more highly esteemed or sincerely respected.
Born in Hardin county, about ten miles south of Elizabethtown, IJentucky,
on October 22, 1849, he is a son of James A. and Catherine
(Daugherty) Duncan. The father, a true southern gentleman from Virginia
and of Scotch ancestry, moved from his home in Hardin county,
Kentucky, in 1857, to Louisville, where he resumed his mercantile business,
but about 1860 he returned to Hardin county, although he again
returned to Louisville in 1862 and re-engaged in business there. In 1870
he moved with his family to Texas, and from Jefferson, in the eastern
part of the state, he went to Grayson county in 1873, and in later years
came to Dallas and died in this city in 1892, aged sixty-six years. His
widow, born in Kentucky, in 1827, is still living in Dallas.
Simeon W. S. Duncan in his early life received excellent educational
facilities, completing his training in 1868 in the University of Kentucky
at Lexington. He came with his parents to Texas in 1870, and in the
following year came to Dallas and has ever since been prominently identified
with the interests of this city. His first occupation here as bobkkeeper
for the pioneer mercantile firm of Clark
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Lindsley, Philip. A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity: Volume 2, book, 1909; Chicago. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21071/m1/3/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.