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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, 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.

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.

Sims, Clifford Stanley

lawyer, author, was born Feb. 17, 1839, in Dauphin county, Pa. He was a lawyer of Arkansas, and latterly of New Jersey, whose principal work is The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames. He died in 1896.

Sims, Harry Marion

physician, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 27, 1851, in Montgomery, Ala. He established himself in New York city, giving much attention to gynecology, on which subject he has lectured for several years before the New York polyclinic. He has prepared an American edition of Dr. Grailly Hewitt's work on Diseases of Women, with additions showing the later improvements in gynecology in this country.