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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.