Joseph Simpson Family Tomb Mausoleum .... Mount Pleasant Cemetery .... Toronto, Ontario
.... Some mausoleums have become neglected with the passing of time and generations – like the Joseph Simpson hillside mausoleum. Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1823, young Simpson entered the business world at the age of 13 as a clerk in one of that southern city's dry good stores. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Joseph Simpson immigrated to Canada where he obtained work in the grain business. In 1862, he began manufacturing knitted goods which eventually led him to establish the Toronto Knitting Company. The business grew to become one of the largest knitting and yarn companies in the nation. Joseph Simpson died on August 7, 1898, a total of nine members of the Simpson family are interred in the family hillside mausoleum ....
Joseph Simpson Family Tomb Mausoleum .... Mount Pleasant Cemetery .... Toronto, Ontario
.... Some mausoleums have become neglected with the passing of time and generations – like the Joseph Simpson hillside mausoleum. Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1823, young Simpson entered the business world at the age of 13 as a clerk in one of that southern city's dry good stores. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Joseph Simpson immigrated to Canada where he obtained work in the grain business. In 1862, he began manufacturing knitted goods which eventually led him to establish the Toronto Knitting Company. The business grew to become one of the largest knitting and yarn companies in the nation. Joseph Simpson died on August 7, 1898, a total of nine members of the Simpson family are interred in the family hillside mausoleum ....