82:, from which institution he graduated in the full course of our years in June 1886. Simpson first went west in 1882, locating at Deer Lodge, Montana, remaining west but a short time, when he returned to Missouri to complete his education and again went west to Deer Lodge, Montana, where he engaged in educational work until 1904, having charge of the public schools of that place. He devoted the hours that are usually termed leisure to the study of law and was admitted to the bar of that state in June 1893. Simpson continued his educational work for a time after his admission to the bar, but then devoted entirely to the law. In 1901 he became prosecuting county Attorney of
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