Photograph
from
One Hundred Years, The Delaware County
Nation Bank Chester, PA 1814-1914
(A biographical sketch taken from One Hundred Years, The Delaware County National Bank Chester, PA 1814-1914)
Years in parentheses are years of service as a Director of The Bank of Delaware County and/or The Delaware County National Bank
William Percy Simpson (1900--)
son of William Simpson, Jr., and Emma C. (Morgan) Simpson, was born in
Philadelphia, August 21, 1870, and educated in that city. A manufacturer,
he represents in the third generation a family prominently identified with
the history of textile industry in Pennsylvania. Mr. Simpson is president
and treasurer of the Eddystone Manufacturing Company, whose enormous plant
for the printing and dyeing of cotton goods at Eddystone,
Delaware county, is one of the largest works making that class of fabrics
in the world. Personally, Mr. Simpson also, under the name of William
Simpson & Sons, conducts a large and prosperous machinery business.
[Obituary]
