Silliman, Benjamin – Simms, Joseph
Silliman, Benjamin
chemist, author, was born Dec. 4, 1816, in New Haven, Conn. He was a professor of chemistry at Yale university from 1846 until his death, and editor of Silliman's Journal.
He was the author of First Principles of Chemistry; American Contributions to Chemistry; and Principles of Physics. He died Jan. 14, 1885, in New Haven, Conn.
Silliman, Benjamin Douglas
lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 14, 1805, in Newport, R. I. He was elected to the New York legislature in 1838. In 1865 he was appointed United States attorney for the eastern district of New York.
Silliman, Gold Selleck
soldier, was born May 7, 1732, in Fairfield, Conn.
At the beginning of the revolutionary war he was colonel of cavalry in the local militia. During the greater part of the war he held the rank of brigadier-general and was charged with the defense of the southwestern frontier of Connecticut, which, owing to the long occupation of New York city by the British, was a duty that required much vigilance. He died July 31, 1790, in Fairfield, Conn.
Silloway, Thomas William
architect, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1828, in Newburyport, Mass. He is a Boston architect who became a universalist minister in 1862; and the author of Theogonis; Text-Book of Modern Carpentry; Warming and Ventilation; and Cathedral Towns of England.
Silsbee, Mrs. Marianne Cabot
[DEVEREUX], author, was born in 1812.
She was a Boston writer who published A Half Century in Salem, and several compilations of poems. She died in 1889.
Silsbee, Nathaniel
merchant, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1773 in Essex county, Mass. He was frequently elected to the Massachusetts state legislature; and was for three years president of the state senate. He served as a representative in congress from 1816 to 1820; and was a senator of the United States from 1826 to 1835. He was a presidential elector in 1837. He died July 1, 1850, in Salem, Mass.
Silsby, William H
soldier, farmer, was born Aug. 31, 1832, in Union county, Pa. He served with distinction during the civil war in the union army. He was first lieutenant of company I, and captain of company A, in the tenth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry; and was promoted to lieutenant and colonel of his regiment. He is successful farmer of Ashland, Oregon. now a
Silver, Thomas
civil engineer, inventor, author, was born June 17, 1830, in Greenwich, N. J. He was a civil engineer well known as an inventor; and the author of A Trip to the North Pole, or Theory of the Origin of Icebergs. He died April 12, 1888, in New York city.
Silvester, Peter
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the Albany committee of safety in 1774; and of the New York provincial congress. He was a judge of the common pleas in 1776; and was elected a member of the first congress under the federal constitution. He was subsequently a state senator. He died Jan. 30, 1845, in Kinderhook, N. Y.
Silvester, Peter H
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 17, 1807, in Kinderhook, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1847 to 1851.
Silvester, Richard William
educator, agriculturist, was born Sept. 16, 1857, in Norfolk, Va. In 1877 he graduated from the Virginia Military institute. The same year he was elected professor of mathematics and military tactics at the Charlotte academy; in 1886 the chair of German was added to his duties; and in 1889 he was elected principal of the same institution. In 1890 he was elected president of the Maryland Agricultural college, and has since filled that position with distinction.
SIMKINS, ARTHUR; lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born about 1750 in Virginia. At the beginning of the revolutionary war he took sides with the patriots, and his place, known as Cedar Fields, was burned by the tories. After the war he was chosen a member of the general assembly, and retained his seat for nearly twenty years. He died in 1826 in Edgefield, S. C.
Simkins, Eldred
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1779, in Edgefield, S. C. He served frequently in the legislature; was lieutenantgovernor of South Carolina in 1812; and was a general of militia. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1817 to 1821. He died in 1832 in Edgefield, S. C.
Simmons, F. M
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1854, in Jones county, S. C. In 1876 he moved to New Berne, N.
C., where he has since resided and practiced his profession. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Simmons, George A
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1771 in New Hampshire. He served a number of years in the assembly of New Hampshire; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-third and thirtyfourth congresses. He died Oct. 27, 1857, in Keesville, N. Y.
Simmons, George Frederick
clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He was a wellknown clergyman of Massachusetts, and, the state of New York; and published a number of sermons and religious works.
He died Sept. 5, 1855, in Concord, Mass.
Simmons, Gustavus Lincoln
surgeon, physician, author, was born March 13, 1832, in Hingham, Mass. He is a successful physician and surgeon of Sacramento, Cal.; and is the author of The Feigned Insanity of the Public Administrator and Murderer Troy Dye.
Simmons, James
lawyer, author, was born June 11, 1821, in Middlebury, Vt. Besides filling several minor offices he was clerk of the county circuit court of Wisconsin from 1861 till 1871. He has published Simmons's Wisconsin Digest; Supplements to the same; Supplement to Wait's Digest, New York Reports; and Simmons's New Wisconsin Digest.
Simmons, James Fowler
farmer, manufacturer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 10, 1795, in Little Compton, R. I. He was a member of the general assembly of Rhode Island from 1828 to 1841. He was elected to the United States senate in 1841 for six years to March 3, 1847; and was again chosen senator for the term beginning March 4, 1857. He died July 10, 1864, in Johnson, R. I.
Simmons, James Wright
poet, was born in South Carolina. He published Blue Beard, a Poem; and The Greek Girl.
A series of metrical tales, Wood Notes from the West, remain in manuscript.
Verses by both brothers may be found in Duyckinck's Cyclopædia of American Literature.
Simmons, P. R
business man, was born April 14, 1874, in Yankton, S. D. For many years he has been identified with the lumber business, and is prominent in the public affairs of Madison, Wis.
SIMMONS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, lawyer, jurist, was born June 25, 1837, in Crawford county, Ga. In 1871 and 1875 he was elected state senator from Georgia; in 1878 judge of the superior court; and in 1887 chief justice of the supreme court.
Simmons, William Hayne
poet, was born about 1875 in South Carolina.
While in Charleston he published anonymously an Indian poem entitled Onea. He is also the author of A History of the Seminoles.
Simmons, William Johnson
clergyman, author, was born June 29, 1849, in Charleston, S. C. He is a baptist minister of African birth who has published Men of Mark.
Simms, Jeptha Root
author, was born Dec. 31, 1807, in Canterbury, Conn.
In 1829 he began the retail dry goods business in New York city; and three years later continued the business in Schoharie county, N. Y.
After 1842 he filled the office of toll collector, and for nine years was ticket agent. His spare hours were employed in collecting an assortment of fossils, which he sold for five thousand dollars to the state of New York for the Geological museum of Albany. He was a rapid writer and a voluminous contributor to current literature. He was the author of a History of Schoharie County; The American Spy, Nathan Hale; Trappers of New York; The Frontiersmen; and numerous lectures and poems. He died May 31, 1883, in Fort Plain, N. Y.
Simms, Joseph
physiognomist, lecturer, author, was born Sept. 3, 1833, in Plainfield Center, N. Y. He received his education at the academy of West Winfield, N. Y.; and has attained success and a world-wide reputation as a lecturer on physiognomy. During 1854-84 he delivered lectures in all parts of the world, his principal lecture being How to Rise in the World. He taught school in New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Illinois, later studied medicine and surgery, and practiced his profession for a short time. During 1854-84 he lectured on physiognomy and physiology with marked success in all parts of the world. He is the author of a Physiognomical Chart; Nature's Revelations of Character; Book of Scientific Lectures; Health and Character; Practical and Scientific Physiognomy; and other works.