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CHARLES B. SIMRALL, a prominent lawyer in Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Madison, Ind., in 1843, and is the fifth of a family of ten children born to John W. G. and Mary (Bartow) Simrall. John W. G. Simrall was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1808, was one of the general managers of the AEtna Insurance Company, and died in Covington in 1862. He was a son of William F. Simrall, a native of Virginia, who was a farmer, and settled in Shelby County, Ky., in 1775, but subsequently moved to Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Mary Simrall was a daughter of Leonard and Eliza (Nephew) Bartow, of Savannah, Ga. Charles B. Simrall was educated at Covington, and at Oxford, Ohio, and Tubingen, Wurtemberg, Germany. He commenced reading law under Judge William Pryor, of Covington, and in 1865 graduated at the Cincinnati Law School. He has since been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati, and for the last fifteen years has been general attorney for the Cincinnati Southern and Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroads. He married Miss Belle Price, and six children have been born to their union, viz.: Josephine E., Mary B., Isabelle C., Alice L., Ruth B. and Elizabeth. Mr. Simrall is a Knight Templar, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.