JUDGE ROBERT SEMPLE. The career of a lawyer is a succession of contests, and the successes made in the legal profession are probably more than in any other calling in the life examples of the “survival of the fittest.” To become distinguished at the bar requires not only capacity, but also sound judgment and persevering industry, and these qualifications are admirably combined in Judge Semple. He was born in Wilkinson county, Miss., November 5, 1850, the fifth of ten children born to the second marriage of Robert Semple, whose father (ie. Robert Semple) was an officer in the United States army holding his commission from President Washington. His father (ie. Robert Semple) emigrated from Scotland about 1755, and settled in Cumberland county, Penn., where during the war of the Revolution he was sheriff. He was descended from the Kirk house branch of the noble Scottish family of Semple, who for over 600 years were barons of wealth and power in the west of Scotland in the barony of Renfrew and held large possessions in the counties of Lenark and Ayr.
