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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

ISOM SIMMONS.

    Isom Simmons enjoys an extensive clientage as an able attorney of Fort
Smith, where he has followed his profession during the past fourteen years. He
is a native of Kansas and a son of Benjamin and Matilda (McKenzie) Simmons, who
removed from the Sunflower state to Booneville, Arkansas, where his early
education was acquired. Later the family home was established about three miles
west of Barber. After completing his educational training Isom Simmons took up
the work of teaching and also read law in preparation for a professional career.
On being admitted to the bar he located for practice at Waldron, there remaining
until 1907, when he came to Fort Smith, where he has continued through the
intervening years to the present time. He is now practicing independently hut
was formerly associated with Harold K. Watrous, who entered the army and
subsequently settled in Connecticut. His clientage is extensive and of an
important character. He is remarkable among lawyers for the wide research and
provident care with which he prepares his cases. At no time has his reading ever
been confined to the limitations of the questions at issue. It has gone beyond
and compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for
the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them.
In 1914 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Sebastian and Scott counties,
making a most creditable and commendable record in that position during the
period of his incumbency, which covered two years.

    Mr. Simmons has been twice married and had two children by his first wife,
who in her maidenhood was Miss Jennie Blythe of Logan county. For his second
wife he chose Miss May Brown and they have become parents of a son, Isom. Mr.
Simmons has spent practically his entire life in Arkansas, and in Fort Smith he
has become widely recognized as a most able and successful member of the bar.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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