Biographical Sketch of James A. Simpson, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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James A. Simpson, mayor of Mountain Grove, Wright County, Mo., and
proprietor of Mountain Grove Marble Works, was born in Cannon County,
Tenn., September 7, 1846, being the son of John A. and Margaret 
(Cherry) Simpson, and grandson of Valentine Simpson, who was a native
of North Carolina, and was a farmer by occupation.  He moved from his
native State to Tennessee, and there resided until an old man, when
he immigrated to Oregon County, Mo., and here received his final
summons.  He was born in 1790, and died in 1865.  He was said to have
been a soldier in the Black Hawk War.  The paternal great grandfather
Peter Simpson, was a native of North Carolina, and immigrated to Tenn.,
where he died.  The same Simpson is purely English.  The maternal
grandmother, Sarah Cherry, was a descendant of English ancestors. John
A. Simpson, father of subject, was born in Tennessee February 27, 1821
and there grew to manhood and was married.  He immigrated to Missouri
in 1851, and located in Lawrence County, removing in 1861 to Randolph
County, Ark., where he died in 1865.  He was in the Confederate service
during the late war, and participated in a number of battles.  Margaret
(Cherry) Simpson is still living, and resides in Lawrence County, Mo.
She is the mother of eight children, of whom James A. Simpson is the
eldest.  He was reared to man's estate in Lawrence County, Mo., and
received a common school education, and came to Wright County, Mo., in
1873, where he was married to Miss Helen R. Ellis, a native of Wright
County, Mo., born in 1852.  Seven children were the fruits of this
union: Loren E., Margaret E., Verona J., Annie V., John W., Francis
Edward and James Arthur.  Mr. Simpson followed farming until 1883, and
then engaged in the marble business, which he has since continued, and
does all his own work.  He is also the owner of three houses and lots.
He was elected justice of the peace of Mountain Grove Township in 1886,
elected mayor in 1887, and filled the office of city treasurer for one
year, previous to being elected to the position of mayor.  He is a
Democrat in politics, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, being a trustee of the same.  Mr. Simpson comes of long lived
ancestors on both the paternal and maternal sides, having seen all his
grandparents except the grandmother on his father's side, and in 
infancy was held in the arms of his great-grandparents on his father's
side.
 
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