Biographical Note
Richard Wright Simpson Jr. was born on October 18, 1874 in Pendleton, SC, the son of Colonel Richard Wright and Maria Louise Garlington Simpson. He married Lillian Aubrey Fletcher (1890-1940) on May 30, 1914 and they had a daughter: Lucy Ann (1920-1956). Simpson was editor of the Greenville (SC) News. He was then with the Associated Press in New York and later in Washington, DC as a White House correspondent during the Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge administrations. After that he was an editor in Norfolk, VA until he became managing editor (1925-1943) and later news director (1944-1946) of the Tampa (FL) Tribune. Simpson died in Pasadena, CA on May 30, 1953.
SOURCE:
Ancestry Library, Beyer-Sager-Hurst Family Tree, http://trees.ancestryinstitution.com/tree/5706954/person/-834525715?ssrc=&ml_rpos=3
Find A Grave Index, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67900161&ref=acom
California, Death Index, 1940-1997, http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=CAdeath1940&h=6795489&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=1174
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0353
Abstract
The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...
Dates:
1784 - 1995; Majority of material found within , 1960-1988
Collection
Identifier: Series-0018
Scope and Contents
This series contains the files of Patrick Hues Mell, President of Clemson College, 1902-1909. Within the files are Mell's correspondence, annual reports of the college, reports of departments within the college, budget summaries, minutes of committees (for example, the Discipline Committee), requests for raises from faculty members, resignations of various faculty and staff members, rosters of various faculty and staff members, rosters of graduates, newspaper clippings, and biographical...
Dates:
1903 - 1909; 1907 - 1909
