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Simpson was born on June 3, 1846, in Tiskilwa, Illinois, the seventh child of Jabez and Matilda (Cook) Simpson.
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Botanist conservationist malacologist
Simpson was born on June 3, 1846, in Tiskilwa, Illinois, the seventh child of Jabez and Matilda (Cook) Simpson.
Simpson was educated in the public schools of the neighborhood and at the age of seventeen enlisted in the 57th Illinois Infantry.
As a young man Simpson joined the navy as carpenter's mate and during his extensive travels in that capacity he made a large collection of sea shells. This hobby developed into a habit that lasted throughout his life and laid the foundation for his scientific endeavors and for his appointment, December 14, 1889, as aid in the division of mollusks in the United States National Museum. He held this position until 1902 when he tendered his resignation to retire to "The Sentinel, " a home he had acquired at Little River, Florida.
During his connection with the National Museum he made a number of trips to various parts of the West Indies and the Bahamas in quest of mollusks, and later in search of plant life for his hammock at "The Sentinel, " which he developed into a veritable botanic paradise. He gathered there all the interesting and showy things that the State of Florida offers and brought thither many exotic plants from the West Indies and other parts of the world. The place soon attracted the attention not only of the lay public, but of the scientific world, and secured for him, June 1, 1914, the appointment of collaborator in the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, which position he held until June 30, 1932.
Simpson was the author of about sixty scientific contributions to knowledge of mollusks, chief among which were "Distribution of the Land and Fresh-Water Mollusks of the West Indian Region, and Their Evidence with Regard to Past Changes of Land and Sea, " "Synopsis of the Naiades, or Pearly Fresh-Water Mussels, " "The Mollusca of Porto Rico, " prepared in collaboration with William H. Dall, and A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naiades or Pearly Fresh-Water Mussels (1914). He was also the author of two works of a popular nature: In Lower Florida Wilds: A Naturalist's Observations on the Life, Physical Geography, and Geology of the More Tropical Part of the State (1920) and Out of Doors in Florida: The Adventures of a Naturalist Together with Essays on the Wild Life and the Geology of the State (1923). In 1932 he published Florida Wild Life: Observations on the Flora and Fauna of the State and the Influence of Climate on Their Development. His immense collection of mollusks he willed to Miami University, Miami, Florida. Simpson died in Miami, Florida, when he was in his eighty-seventh year.
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Simpson was twice married: first, on June 29, 1878, to Cornelia H. Couch, who died in 1898; second, September 17, 1902, to Mrs. Flora Gertrude Roper, who survived him. By his first marriage he had a son, Pliny Ferd.