Parke Edmund Simmons 1858-1936

SIMMONS, PEARSON, GIVEN, COTTRELL, WILLIAMS, WRIGHT

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Date: 1/14/2020 at 09:10:48

15 October 1936 - The Clarence Sun

Parke Edmund Simmons, retired Chicago lawyer and widely known book collector whose library in his home at 1746 Hinman avenue, Evanston, contained many rare editions, died of a heart ailment Sunday at Evanston hospital. He was 78.

Funeral services for Mr. Simmons, who had resided at the Hinman avenue address about 40 years, were private.

Born October 20, 1858, in Tipton, Mr. Simmons was the son of Edmund B. and Amelia McLeod Simmons. He received his A.B. degree from Cornell university in 1881 and his Ph.B. from Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, in 1888. In 1882 he was admitted to the Iowa bar and the following year went to Chicago to practice.

He was a member of the American, Illinois State and Chicago bar association, the Law institute, Delta Upsilon fraternity and of the Evanston and Chicago University clubs.

Mr. Simmons is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Edward J. Pearson of New York City, Mrs. Nellie S. Given, who made her home with him, and Mrs. M. B. Cottrell of Wilmette. His first wife, Jessie B. Williams, to whom he was married in 1895, died in 1915. His second marriage, to Mrs. Mary de Diemar Wright Simmons of New Haven, Conn. ended in divorce.