LEADING  MANUFACTURERS  AND  MERCHANTS  CITY  OF  BROOKLYN


J. A. S. SIMONSON

Real Estate and Insurance
No. 1016 Broadway
Down-town Office, No. 26 Willoughby Street.-

Prominent among the active members of the real estate and insurance business 
of Brooklyn is Mr. S. A. S. Simonson, of No. 1016 Broadway. He has had ample 
practical experience in his line of business, having founded his enterprise t
wenty years ago. In addition to his neat, well-appointed office on Broadway; 
he has a down-town office at No. 26 Willoughby Street. 

He buys, sells, exchanges, and lets all kinds of property, and likewise has 
the exclusive charge of several estates, to which he attends with satisfaction 
to all parties concerned, and under his able management and close personal
 attention has placed them in a thoroughly thrifty and paying condition. He 
is an authority on values, present and prospective, and is frequently called 
upon in settlement of disputes as an expert in this line. At all times he has 
upon his books houses, flats, stores, etc., for sale and to let, and he promptly 
collects rents, negotiates loans on bonds and mortgages, and makes profitable 
and satisfactory investments for capitalists. He has won the esteem and 
confidence of property owners, capitalists, and the public generally, and 
the result is that he enjoys a large patronage of a substantial character. 

Orders for the very best coal in the market, weight and quality being guaranteed, 
are satisfactorily filled by Mr. Simonson. He also controls a large insurance 
business, and insures all kinds of insurable property at the lowest rates 
consistent with security. 

He is the representative of the: 
German-American Insurance Company, 
Niagara Insurance Company, 
Insurance Company of North America, 
London Assurance Company, etc. 

Mr. Simonson is one of the most enterprising in projecting improvements in his 
section of the city, where he has been and is engaged in building neat and 
comfortable houses, eligibly located, and which he sells on easy terms, thus 
enabling persons of moderate means to become the proprietors of their own residences. 

He is a native of Long Island and very popular. 


With Special Thanks to: Cathy Harrison Speciale
Transcribed exclusively for the Brooklyn Genealogical Information Pages: Nancy E Lutz

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