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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 326



EMILIO D. DE SOTO.

	Prominent among Denver's able lawyers is Emilio D. De Soto and 
few men in the profession are more thoroughly informed concerning 
mining law and questions relative thereto. Mr. De Soto comes to 
Colorado from South America. He was born at Lima. Peru, August 5, 1865, 
a son of the late Joseph B. De Soto, a native of Spain, who migrated to 
Peru about 1850. He was a lawyer by profession and after residing on 
the southern continent until 1867 made his way northward to the United 
States and became a resident of Denver, where he continued to live 
until 1873. He translated the territorial legislative acts from English 
into Spanish. He was an eminent lawyer and able scholar and after 
remaining for a number of years in the north, retraced his steps 
southward as far as old Mexico, where he passed away in 1878. He 
married Emma Allen, a native of England, who had gone to Peru in early 
girlhood. She, too, has passed away, her death occurring in Denver in 
1872.

	Mr. De Soto of this review was one of a family of four children, 
three sons and a daughter. He pursued his education in- the schools of 
Georgetown, Colorado, passing through consecutive grades to the high 
school, from which he was graduated in 1881. He next entered the law 
office of Morrison & Fillius in order to prepare for the bar and there 
continued his reading until admitted to practice in the year 1891. He 
was licensed to practice in all the courts and immediately afterward 
entered into partnership with R. S. Morrison, his former preceptor, 
under the firm style of Morrison & De Soto. In this connection he has 
since remained, being a very prominent and well known member of the 
Denver bar at the present time. He has always specialized in mining law 
and he was the collaborator with Mr. Morrison in preparing a volume 
entitled "Morrison's Mining Rights." This publication has reached its 
fifteenth edition and Mr. De Soto has assisted in its preparation for 
twenty years as one after another edition has been brought from the 
press. In addition to the practice of law Mr. De Soto is also an 
officer and director in various mining companies.

	On the 31st of October, 1895, Mr. De Soto was married in Denver 
to Miss Laura Bates, a daughter of the late Joseph E. Bates. In his 
political views Mr. De Soto is a democrat and his religious faith is 
that of the Episcopal church. He belongs to the Civic and Commercial 
Association of Denver and his aid and assistance can at all times be 
counted upon to further measures and movements which tend to advance 
the Interests of the city, to extend its business connections and to 
uphold its civic standards. From the age of twenty years he has been 
self-supporting. He entered upon a profession where advancement is 
attributable entirely to individual merit and ability and his 
increasing powers have brought him prominently to the front, especially 
in connection with mining law. in which department of jurisprudence his 
opinions are largely accepted as authority.