Simon was born in 1842. He is the son of Simon Lake and Sarah Blake. Together with his father and his brothers, established the Ocean City Association, in order to establish a “Christian temperance seaside resort.” He was also President of the New Jersey Methodist Publishing Company and a Director from f the First National Bank of Ocean City and of the Ocean City Title and Trust Company.
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