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| SIMPSON, MARVIN ALDEN Marvin Alden Simpson, an attorney at law practicing his profession in Denver, was born in Shelby, Iowa, on the 20th of August. 1886. a son of Albert O. and Mary L. (Lane) Simpson. The Simpson family is of English origin and was founded in America at a very early period in the colonization of New England. The father, Albert O. Simpson, was a native of Massachusetts and a direct descendant in the paternal line of John and Priscilla Alden. He was quite young at the time of the removal of his parents to Iowa and in that state he was reared and educated. The family home was established in western Iowa when that section of the state had scarcely been opened to civilization. His father became a large landowner and very wealthy man of the region in which he located. As the years passed Albert O. Simpson occupied a prominent position in connection with interests of Iowa and his last days were passed in Clinton, that state, where his death occurred in 1890. He was born in 1862, so that he was a comparatively young man of twenty-eight years when called to the home beyond. In early manhood he wedded Mary L. Lane, who was born in Scott county, Iowa, and belonged to one of the pioneer families of that state. She was of Scotch-Irish lineage. Her parents were also wealthy and prominent landowners of Iowa who took up their abode within its borders when pioneer conditions prevailed. Her father was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and was christened Patrick Henry Lane. He was born in 1818 and came to America in 1840. His daughter. Mrs. Simpson, passed away in 1904 at the age of forty-one years. She was the mother of three children. Marvin Alden Simpson, who was the second in order of birth in that family and is the only one now living, was reared in Iowa and educated in the schools of Shelby, Avoca and Council Bluffs, while later he continued his studies in San Antonio, Texas, and in Lancaster and Madison, Wisconsin. He pursued a high school course and a preparatory course and then entered the University of Wisconsin, where he pursued the work of the sophomore year. On the expiration of that period he came to Colorado and entered the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he completed his law studies, which he had previously begun in the Lebanon Law School of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee. He was graduated in 1912 with the LL. B. degree and was admitted to practice in June, 1912, in both Kentucky and Tennessee. He located for professional activity in Denver, however, in December, 1912. entering the office of McKnight & Henry, with which firm he continued until August, 1914. He was afterward associated with Hilliard & Lilyard until August, 1917, since which time he has been connected with Mr. Lilyard in practice under the firm style of Lilyard & Simpson. This firm specializes in corporation and probate law and has attained high rank in connection with those branches of the profession. Both partners are well informed concerning the legal principles having to do with corporation and probate interests and their practice is now extensive and important. Mr. Simpson holds membership with the Denver County Bar Association. On the 20th of December, 1911, Mr. Simpson was united in marriage to Miss Marguerite J. Bromfield. a daughter of Albert J. Bromfield, and they have become the parents of one child, Marguerite Elaine, who was born in Denver, September 20, 1913. In politics Mr. Simpson maintains an independent course and fraternally he is connected with the Phi Kappa Psi, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. In an analyzation of his career it will be see"n that his advancement and prominence have come as the direct result of his own labors. In fact, he chose as a life work a profession in which family and influence are of little or no avail and by individual effort he has steadily progressed, his marked ability being the direct outcome of wide study, broad experience and laudable ambition. He is well qualified to undertake important interests, especially in the field of corporation and probate practice, and his work has frequently brought him prominently before the public as a leading member of the Denver bar. History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1933-1920), c. 1918, pp. 732-733 |