Simms, William E – Sims, Charles N
Simms, William E
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-sixth congress.
Simms, William Gilmore
author, poet, was born April 17, 1806, in Charleston, S. C. He was a voluminous romancer and verse-writer of Charleston. He was the author of The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy Rivers; Martin Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe; and twelve volumes of verse: Atlantis; Lays of the Palmetto; and Areytos, or Songs and Ballads of the South. Other works of his include A History of South Carolina; and Lives of Marion, General Greene, Captain John Smith, and Chevalier Bayard. He died June 11, 1870, in Charleston, S. C.
Simonds, William
journalist, author, was born Oct. 30, 1822, in Charleston, Mass. He was a Boston journalist who was a very popular writer for young people; and the author of The Aimwell Stories; The Boys' Own Guide; and Boys' Book of Morals and Manners. He died July 7, 1859, in Winchester, Mass.
Simonds, William Edgar
soldier, lecturer, congressman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1841, in Collinsville, Conn. Since 1865 he has practiced law in Hartford, Conn. During 1884- 93 he filled the lectureship on patent law in the Yale Law school; and for three years in 1891-93 filled the same chair in the Columbia university of Washington, D. C.
In 1882 he was elected a member of the Connecticut state legislature; and in 1885 received the reelection and was made speaker. He was a member of the fifty-first congress in 1889-91; and was United States commissioner of patents in 1891-93. He is the author of Design Patents; Digest of Patent Office Decisions; Digest of Patent Cases; and Summary of Patent Law.
Simons, Michael Laird
journalist, author, was born Sept. 7, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He edited Stodart's Review; condensed D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation; published Half-Hours with the Best Preachers; and continued Duyckinck's Cyclopædia of American Literature, adding about one hundred new names down to 1873. His last work is an extensive History of the World. He died Nov. 17, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Simons, Samuel
congressman, was born in 1792. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1843 to 1845. He died Jan. 13, 1847, in Bridgeport, Conn.
Simons, Thomas
lawyer, was born Dec. 17, 1834, in Burmah. In 1865 he moved to New York city, and became assistant United States attorney, serving until 1875, when he was appointed an assistant attorney-general of the United States, residing at Washington.
Simons, Thomas Young
soldier, journalist, lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 1, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. In 1854-60 he was a member of the South Carolina legislature, and in the latter year a presidential elector. He was also a member of the convention that passed the ordinance of secession in December, 1860, and in the civil war he served as captain of the twenty-seventh South Carolina regiment, and later as judge-advocate. He died April 30, 1878, in Charleston, S. C.
Simonson, John Smith
soldier, was born June 2, 1796, in Uniontown, Pa.
At the opening of the civil war he was made superintendent of the volunteer recruiting service at Indianapolis, Ind., and he continued on active military duty till 1869. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadiergeneral United States army for long and faithful service. He died Dec. 5, 1881, in New Albany, Ind.
Simonton, Charles Bryson
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1838, in Tipton county, Tenn. He was a. member of the state house of representatives in 1877 and 1878; and was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.
Simonton, William
congressman.
He was a member of congress from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843. He died May 18, 1846, in Hanover, Pa.
Simpkins, John
state senator, congressman, was born June 27, 1862, in New Bedford, Mass. He served in the Massachusetts state senate in 1890 and 1891; and was a presidential elector for Harrison and Reid in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.
Simpson, Charles Wesley
journalist, was born Feb. 11, 1857, in De Witt county, Tex. In 1885 he graduated from the Southwestern university of Georgetown, Tex., and received the degree of A. M. He is the editor and owner of the Spokesman of Colorado, Tex. He has been county treasurer, postmaster, census enumerator, and filled various other public positions of trust.
Simpson, Edward
naval officer, author, was born March 3, 1824, in New York city. He was a naval officer of prominence, rear-admiral from 1884; and the author of Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; The Naval Mission to Europe; and Report of the Gun Foundry Board. He died Dec. 2, 1888, in Washington, D. C.
Simpson, George Semmes
pioneer, was born May 7, 1818, in St. Louis, Mo.
After various experiences in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico he built the old fort in 1842 where the city of Pueblo now stands. He died Sept. 4, 1885, in Trinidad, Colo., and 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.
Simpson, Harvey S
railroad president, was born in 1854 in Laurens, S. C. Since 1891 he has been president of the Glenn Springs railroad, South Carolina.
Simpson, Henry
author, was born in 1790 in Pennsylvania. He was a Philadelphia author who published Lives of Eminent Philadelphians. He died March 25, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Simpson, James Hervey
soldier, author, was born March 9, 1813, in New Jersey. He was a colonel of engineers and brevet brigadier-general in the United States army. He was the author of The Shortest Route to California; and Coronado's March in Search of the Seven Cities of Cibola. He died March 2, 1883, in St.
Paul, Minn.
Simpson, Jerry
sailor, farmer, congressman, was born March 31, 1842, in New Brunswick. In 1878 he drifted to Kansas and is now living six miles from Medicine Lodge, Barber county, where he is engaged in farming and stock raising.
He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a farmers' alliance candidate; and was nominated for the fifty-fourth congress, but was defeated at the election; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a demo-populist.
Simpson, Josiah
lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1812 he was appointed United States judge for the territory of Mississippi.
Simpson, Marcus De Lafayette
soldier, was born Aug. 28, 1824, in Esperance, N.Y. During the civil war he served in the commissary-general's office, and he was brevetted colonel, brigadiergeneral, and major-general in 1865.
Simpson, Matthew
bishop, author, was born June 20, 1811, in Cadiz, Ohio.
He was a methodist bishop famous as a pulpit orator; and the author of Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of Methodism; Sermons; and Cyclopædia of Methodism.
During 1839-49 he was president of the Indiana Asbury university, now called the De Pauw univer- He rendered sity. vast services to the country during the civil war; was often sent for to visit Washington; and as early as 1861 he had suggested the necessity of an emancipation proclamation. He died June 18, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Simpson, Richard F
state senator, congressman, was born in South Carolina.
He was a member of the senate of his native state; and was a representative in congress from South Carolina in 1843-47.
Simpson, W. D
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born June 11, 1803, in Brunswick county, Va. In 1856 he was elected a representative in the South Carolina state legislature; and was re-elected. He was elected a state senator in 1860. He entered the confederate army as lieutenant-colonel on staff duty; and was afterward major and lieutenant-colonel in the line. In 1863 he was elected a representative in the confederate congress; and in 1868 was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-first congress. In 1876 he was elected lieutenant-governor of South Carolina; and was re-elected in 1878. In 1879 he became governor of the state by the election of Governor Hampton to the United States senate; and in that year was elected chief justice of the supreme court of the state for the term of six years from 1880.
Simpson, William Alexander
lawyer, scientist, author, was born Jan. 24, 1836, in Knox county, Tenn. He has been county surveyor of Roane and Loudon counties, Tenn.; for sixteen years a member of the magistrate's court of Loudon county; and for twenty-three years postmaster of Stockton. He is a noted scientist, and the author of A Common Sense Commentary on the Bible.
Sims, Alexander Dromgoole
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born June 11, 1803, in Brunswick county, Va.
He served in the South Carolina state legislature in 1840 and 1842; and was a member of congress from South Carolina from 1845 to 1848. He died Nov. 11, 1848, in Kingstree, S. C.
Sims, Charles N
clergyman, college president, author, was born May 18, 1835, in Union county, Ind. In 1860 he became president of Valparaiso college, Indiana; and in 1862 was appointed to a pastoral charge in Richmond, Ind. Since 1880 he has been chancellor of Syracuse university. In 1882 and 1883 he was appointed commissioner to the Onondaga Indian nation. He is the author of a Life of Thomas M. Eddy.