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Sims, Henry Augustus – Singiser, Theodore F

Sims, Henry Augustus

architect, was born Dec. 22, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was long the secretary for foreign correspondence of the American Institute of Architects. He designed many city and country residences and, among other public buildings, the Columbia Avenue and Second Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia, the chapel at Mercersburg, Pa., the court-house at Hagerstown, Md., and the almshouse of Montgomery county, Pa. He died July 10, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Sims, James Marion

physician, surgeon, author, was born Jan. 25, 1813, in Lancaster county, S. C. He was a celebrated surgeon of New York city to whose influence is due the establishment of gynæcology as a department of medicine; and the author of Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery; Ovariotomy; and The Story of My Life. He died Nov. 13, 1883, in New York city.

Sims, James Peacock

architect, was born Nov. 15, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. He designed, besides many private residences, the building of the Royal Insurance company, Christ church and Holy Trinity Memorial chapels, Philadelphia, and Christ church in Germantown. He died May 20, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Sims, Leonard H

congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was elected a representative in congress from Missouri from 1845 to 1847.

Sims, Thetus Willrette

educator, lawyer, congressman, was born April 25, 1852, in Wayne county, Tenn. He was elected county superintendent of public instruction for Perry county, Tenn., in 1882, and held that office for two years.

He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Sims, Winfield Scott

inventor, was born April 6, 1844, in New York city.

He was the first to apply electricity for the propulsion and guidance of movable torpedoes for harbor and coast defense.

His torpedo is a submarine boat, with a cylindrical hull of copper and conical ends, supplied with a screw propeller and rudder.

Sinclair, Carrie Bell

poet, was born May 23, 1839, in Milledgeville, Ga.

She is a verse writer of Philadelphia; and the author of Poems; and Heart Whispers, or Echoes of Song.

Sinclair, Charles E

lawyer, jurist, was born in Virginia. He was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.

Singer, Isaac Merritt

inventor, was born Oct. 27, 1811, in Oswego, N. Y.

He was a machinist, and devoted himself entirely to the study of improving sewing-machines. After years of close application he succeeded in completing a single-thread, chain-stitch machine, for which he received a patent. He died July 23, 1875, in England.

Singer, Otto

musician, composer, was born July 26, 1833, in Germany. He was the author of The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers; Festival Ode; and has contributed to periodicals articles on historical and æsthetical subjects. He died in January, 1894, in New York city.

Singerly, William Miskey

proprietor of The Philadelphia Record, was born Dec. 27, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa.

In 1877 he bought The Philadelphia Record; and he brought the daily sales from 5,000 to more than 100,000 copies, and made the enterprise profitable. He died in 1898.

Singiser, Theodore F

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 15, 1845, in Churchtown, Pa. He was employed in the United States treasury at Washington from 1875 to 1879, when he was appointed receiver of public moneys at Oxford, Idaho. In 1880 he was appointed secretary of Idaho territory; was acting governor of the territory during the winter of 1881-82; and was elected the delegate from Idaho to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.