SIMPSON, George Semmes, pioneer, born in St. Louis, Missouri, 7 May, 1818; died in Trinidad. Colonel, 4 September, 1885. He received a college education and studied law, but on the completion of his studies set out for the far west. After various experiences in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, he built the old fort in 1842 where the city of Pueblo, Colonel, now stands. In November of that year he married a Spanish beauty, Juana Suaso, travelling with her on horseback through a wild country infested by hostile Indians to Taos, New Mexico, where the services of a priest were secured. Their daughter, Isabel, now Mrs. Jacob Beard, of Trinidad, was the first white child that was born in the Rocky mountain region of Colorado. Indians came in large numbers from the plains and mountains to see the white child. They brought her presents and had a great war-dance in her honor. Subsequently Mr. Simpson lived in various parts of New Mexico until 1849, when he went to California, but he returned to Colorado by way of the isthmus in 1852. In 1866 he settled in Trinidad, Colonel, and there spent the last years of his life. He contributed both prose and verse to magazines and journals, and the first information that gold was found in the sands of Cherry creek, Colonel, was sent to newspapers in the east by him. He left a compilation of his contributions, reviewing the events of his life, with the request that they be published. He was buried in a tomb cut out of the solid rock on the summit of a mountain known as Simpson's Nest, where he had once found shelter from the Indians. A monument marks the spot.