Simon P. Light

Born in the city of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and educated in the schools of that city, Lebanon Valley College, and in city law offices, Simon P. Light, a true native son, and a practitioner at the Lebanon county bar since admission, reviews a career compiled among the friends and acquaintances of a lifetime. Eminent in those departments of the law in which he specializes, corporation and public utility law, he is hardly less prominent as a business man, he having in the past been interested as a promoter of railway and public utilities of Lebanon city and valley.

Simon P. Light was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1861. After completing a high school course, he entered Lebanon Valley College, from whence he was graduated, with the degree of A.M., in 1880. He studied law under local preceptors, and was admitted to the bar of Lebanon county, where he has since practiced continuously. He has a large and lucrative practice, which is not confined to his own county, but he also is a member of the bars of Dauphin, Berks, and Lancaster counties, and qualified to practice in the courts of those counties, as well as in the Federal courts of the district and the Appellate courts of the State. His practice has been general in character, but, as before stated, he specializes in the law of corporations and public utilities. He is attorney for the Farmers' Trust Company; Reading Transit and Light Company, and the Metropolitan Edison Company. In 1899 he was elected county solicitor, an office he held for three years, elected as the candidate of the Democratic party. In 1890 Mr. Light organized and became president of the Lebanon Street Railway system; from 1892 to 1898 was secretary of the Pennsylvania Street Railway Association; was treasurer of the Lebanon Valley Iron Company; and for a time a director of the Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Company. He served Lebanon Valley College; his alma mater, as a member of its board of trustees. In politics Mr. Light is a Democrat, sitting as a delegate in the national conventions of that party in 1892 and 1896. He is president of the Stutz Club, a social organization, of Lebanon, composed of professional and business men; is a member of the Art Club, of Philadelphia; Lebanon Country Club, and other local organizations.

Frank M. Eastman. Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania: A History, 1623-1923. New York: American Historical Society, Inc. 1922, p. 312.

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