Michael Troutman Simmons (August 5, 1814 – November 15, 1867) was an American pioneer and one of the first white men to settle in the Puget Sound.

When Michael was 21 years old, he moved to Iowa and married a 15-year-old girl named Elizabeth Kindred.

[2] At the age of 30, he decided to abandon the Midwest and came to the Puget Sound on a wagon train with a group of settlers (including his friend George Bush) in late 1845.

[1] After taking advice from the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Nisqually, the new American settlers founded New Market (later Tumwater).

[3] Despite its help, three years later Simmons led a campaign of complaints against the "monarchist" Hudson's Bay Company.