The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-06
He Was the Senior Member of the
Layman & Carey Company,
Hardware Dealers.
HAD AN INTERESTING CAREER
WILLIAM III. SMYTHE DIES AT HIS
HOME IN THIS CITY.
He Had Been Secretary of the Indiana
Grand Lodge of Masons for
Many Years.

Simeon B. Carey, senior member Of the
Layman & Carey Company, hardware
dealers on South Meridian street, died last
night at his residence, 615 North Pennsyl-
vania street. Mr.. Carey had been feeling
badly for the past four weeks. but did not
take to his bed until last Saturday. He
was seventy-nine years old and his death
was largely due to old age For the past
three days he had been unconscious. He
was one of the oldest hardware dealers in
the state. He settled in this city In 1869,
when he started his present store on South
Meridian street which. of late years. has
been largely operated by his son, Samuel
Carey.
Simeon B. Carey came Of the old English
stock that emigrated from England in 1884.
He was born in Shelby county. Ohio. on
Dec, %, 1922. His father was one of the
active Virginian farmers Immediately after
the revolutionary war. He later moved to
Ohio where Simeon was born. Young
Carey remained on mis- fathers farm until
he was eighteen years old. He spent his
time in learning husbandry and gathering
such rudiments of education the little
neighb )ring log schoolhouse afforded. His
father then moved to Sidney, where young
Carey was given a course in a grammar
school. He entered a store as clerk, and
in two years formed partnership with his
brother under the firm name of b. w. &
S. B. Carey. Simeon Carey represented the
firm in New York in purchasing dry goods.
He remained in the East few years and
gained a large business education. Travel
in his early days had many hardships and
he was obliged to go from Sidney to Gin
cinnati by stage and then by steamer to
Brownsville, where he Travelled again by
stage. While still operating the little store
in Sidney, he with his brothers, Thomas and
Jason. made an overland trip to California
with pack mules. 1t took the party three
months to complete the trip. They re-
NAMED on the coast but one year when the
illness of one of the brothers necessitated
their return to Sidney. They took passage
on a sailing craft leaving San Francisco
and making the trip TO the isthmus and
then to New Orleans. Old Commodore
Vanderbilt was the commander of the
vessel Mr.. Carey returned 10 New York
and later came to indianapolis, where he
started the present hardware business with
Mr.. Theodore Layman. About fourteen
years ago Mr. Carey was seized with
stroke of apoplexy from which he never en-
tirely recovered. Since that illness he had
not given his actual attention TO the busi-
ness, but turned ii over TO his son.
Mr.. Carey was married on Nov. 2, 1854. TO
Miss Lydia King. of Westfed, Mass. Five
children resulted from this union, only two
of whom are living, Samuel Carey, of this
city and Mrs Jennie Brumback. of Toledo,
.. Mr.. Carey was Republican in politics,
but never aspired to office. He had been a
member of the Second Presbyterian church
for twenty-five years. The funeral will be
held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock, and
the burial will be held at Crown Hill.