Background
Shope, Simeon P. was born on December 3, 1837 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Simeon P. and Lucinda (Richmond) Shope.
Shope, Simeon P. was born on December 3, 1837 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Simeon P. and Lucinda (Richmond) Shope.
Parents removed to Marseilles, Illinois, 1839. Common school and academic education. Taught district school.
Admitted to bar, 1858. Practiced at Metamora, and Lewiston, Illinois, 1858-1877. Judge Circuit Court, 10th Illinois Circuit, 1877-1885.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Illinois, 1885-1894.
Declined renomination. In practice at Chicago, since 1894.
Senior member Shope, Zane, Busby & Weber.
Member Shope, Zane, Busby & Weber.
Married Sarah M. Jones, 1858 (died 1883).