Symes, George G
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 28, 1840, in Ashtabula county, Ohio. In 1862 he raised a volunteer company and reentered the service as adjutant of the twenty-fifth regiment of Wisconsin volunteers. He was promoted colonel of the forty-fourth Wisconsin regiment. In 1869 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Montana. In 1874 he moved to Denver, Colo., where he continued to practice law; and in 1884 was elected the representative from Colorado to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.