SODAPOPBOB
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Correction ... If this information from S. J. Simons' biography is accurate, then he apparently did take over Haywards Soda Works in the early 1890s and not in 1910. It was in 1910 that he apparently changed the name. I checked and Simons died in 1928. The original Haywards Soda Works was established in 1884 by J. A. Collins. The following is copy/pasted from the biography link I posted earlier ... "In the early '90s he established a bottling business in Hayward, which proved a successful venture, and he carried it on alone until about 1910, when he organized the Hayward Soda Works Company, of which he became president, remaining at the head of that business up to the time of his death."