Sebastian-Boone-Scott County ArArchives Biographies.....Simmons, Isom ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/arfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Sanchez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006574 June 10, 2009, 1:24 pm Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922) ISOM SIMMONS. Isom Simmons enjoys an extensive clientage as an able attorney of Fort Smith, where he has followed his profession during the past fourteen years. He is a native of Kansas and a son of Benjamin and Matilda (McKenzie) Simmons, who removed from the Sunflower state to Booneville, Arkansas, where his early education was acquired. Later the family home was established about three miles west of Barber. After completing his educational training Isom Simmons took up the work of teaching and also read law in preparation for a professional career. On being admitted to the bar he located for practice at Waldron, there remaining until 1907, when he came to Fort Smith, where he has continued through the intervening years to the present time. He is now practicing independently hut was formerly associated with Harold K. Watrous, who entered the army and subsequently settled in Connecticut. His clientage is extensive and of an important character. He is remarkable among lawyers for the wide research and provident care with which he prepares his cases. At no time has his reading ever been confined to the limitations of the questions at issue. It has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them. In 1914 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Sebastian and Scott counties, making a most creditable and commendable record in that position during the period of his incumbency, which covered two years. Mr. Simmons has been twice married and had two children by his first wife, who in her maidenhood was Miss Jennie Blythe of Logan county. For his second wife he chose Miss May Brown and they have become parents of a son, Isom. Mr. Simmons has spent practically his entire life in Arkansas, and in Fort Smith he has become widely recognized as a most able and successful member of the bar. Additional Comments: Citation: Centennial History of Arkansas Volume II Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1922 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/sebastian/bios/simmons67bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb