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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  ROBERT TENNENT SIMPSON, prominent Attorney-at-law, Florence, Ala., son of John
and Margaret (Patton) Simpson, natives, respectively, of Tyrone and Belfast,
Ireland.

  The senior Mr. Simpson came to America in 1818, settled at Florence, engaged
at mercantile business, and at the end of seven years, returned to Ireland and
married. Bringing his wife to America, they lived at Florence the rest of their
days. They reared four sons and two daughters. Three of his sons were in the
Confederate Army. John Simpson, Jr., First Lieutenant of Lauderdale Volunteers,
was killed at Manassas.

  The subject of this sketch is a graduate of Princeton College, class of 1857,
and of the law department of the Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., class of
1859. Immediately after leaving Lebanon, he began the practice of law at Des
Arc, Ark., and was there at the outbreak of the war.

  In April, 1861, he enlisted as private in the Fourth Alabama Regiment, and
took part with that regiment in the first battle of Manassas, and, shortly
thereafter, was appointed second lieutenant in the First Alabama Battalion of
Artillery. He was afterward promoted to first lieutenant in that command. He was
cut off from his command when Fort Morgan was besieged, and assigned to duty as
adjutant-general of General Liddell's Brigade. While serving in that capacity,
he was elected captain of one of the companies in the Sixty-third Alabama
Regiment, which position he accepted, and commanded the company through the
sieges at Spanish Fort and Blakely. At the surrender of his command, at the last
named place, on April 9, 1865, he was taken as a prisoner of war to Ship Island,
where he remained till the command was brought to Jackson, Tenn., and there
paroled in May, 1865.

  After the close of the war he settled at Camden, Ala., where he practiced law
until 1870, at which time he returned to Florence. He was elected to the
Legislature in 1882, and to the Senate from the district composed of Lauderdale
and Limestone Counties in 1884. In both houses of the General Assembly, Captain
Simpson proved himself an active and useful member.

  He was married at Florence, September, 1861, to Miss Mattie Collier, daughter
of Mr. Wyat Collier, of Lauderdale County. To this union have been born one son
and four daughters: the former is a student at law, in Kansas.

  Captain Simpson is a member of the Knights of Honor and Knights and Ladies of
Honor: President of the Board of Trustees of the Female Synodical College of
Florence, and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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