Polk County, Missouri Biographies - James G. SIMPSON

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 694, 695
Polk County Biographies Section

James G. Simpson, an attorney-at-law and mayor of Bolivar, was
born in Laurens County, S. C., December 2, 1846.  At the age of
sixteen years he entered the State Military Academy of South
Carolina.  In the fall of 1864, the corps of cadets to which he
belonged was called out into the Confederate service in front of
Sherman.  His captain was Hugh S. Thompson.  Soon after the war 
our subject read law under W. D. Simpson, chief justice of
South Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in 1867.  After that
he was engaged in railroad surveying, and continued this until 
1872, when he came to Bolivar, and has been engaged in the legal 
profession at this place ever since.  From 1875 to 1883 he held
the position of probate judge and for two years he has been mayor
of Bolivar.  He is a Knight Templar, having been presiding officer 
of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery.  Politically he is a 
Democrat, though the county goes over 300 Republican.  In connection 
with his profession Mr. Simpson deals in land.  For a companion 
in life he chose Miss Eliza White, a native of Bolivar, whose
grandparents were early pioneers of Polk County.  Mr. Simpson is 
accounted one of the successful attorneys of the county, and is a 
man highly respected by all who know him.  He is secretary of the 
Polk County Agricultural and Mechanical Society.  He and wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is one of the 
incorporators of the same, and has been one of its trustees.
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