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


p.274-275



HUGH O. NEVILLE.

	Hugh O. Neville, attorney at law of Denver, where he has been 
engaged in active practice since 1911, was born in Daviess county, 
Missouri, on the 27th of March, 1876, a son of George and Elizabeth 
(Brown) Neville, the former a native of Kentucky, while the latter was 
born in Missouri. The father removed to Missouri in young manhood and 
engaged in stock raising and farming in Daviess county, becoming one of 
the influential and prominent agriculturists of that state, honored and 
respected by all who knew him to the time of his death, which occurred 
in February, 1918. For four years he served in the Union army. having 
enlisted with a Missouri regiment, and he acted as sergeant of his 
company. He was a son of Henry O. Neville, who was at one time a 
prominent resident of Kentucky and afterward of Missouri and who won 
his title of colonel as commander of the Thirty-fifth Missouri Regiment 
during the period of hostilities between the north and the south. 
George Neville was married in early manhood to Miss Elizabeth Brown, 
who was reared and educated in her native state and who passed away on 
the old homestead there in 1916. They were the parents of eleven 
children.

	Hugh O. Neville, who was the seventh in order of birth in that 
family, spent his youthful days as a public school pupil in Daviess 
county, Missouri, and afterward attended the William Jewell College at 
Liberty, Missouri. He remained a student in the latter institution for 
three years and won a teacher's degree. He then taught school and 
became superintendent of schools of Buchanan county, Missouri, and 
retained that position for two years. In the meantime he devoted all of 
his leisure hours outside of the schoolroom to the study of law until 
he had qualified for the bar and was admitted to practice. He then gave 
up his position as superintendent of schools and entered upon the 
active work of the profession in St. Joseph. Missouri, where he engaged 
in the successful practice of law for eight years. Seeking a still 
broader field, he came to Denver in 1911 and has here since been an 
active member of the bar, enjoying a clientage that has constantly 
increased in volume and importance and that has connected him with much 
notable litigation tried in the courts of the state. He is a member of 
the Denver City and County Bar Association and also of the State Bar 
Association.

	In St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 10th of September, 1899, Mr. 
Neville was married to Miss Dessie Leftwich, a daughter of James B. 
Leftwich, of St. Joseph. They have become parents of two children: 
Esther, born in St. Joseph, May 27, 1901, and now a student in the 
University of Denver; and Glenn, who was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, 
in 1905 and is a graduate of the schools of Denver.

	Mr. Neville's military experience covers service with Troop F of 
the Third United States Cavalry at Key West and at Tampa during the 
Spanish-American war and he is a member of the Spanish War Veterans. He 
is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the 
Knights of Pythias and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. His 
political allegiance la given to the democratic party and he keeps 
thoroughly informed on the questions and issues of the day, although 
not an office seeker. He fully realizes the obligations and 
responsibilities of citizenship and he puts forth every possible effort 
to uphold community, commonwealth and national interests.