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SIMPSON, William Dunlap, governor of Soutli Caruliiui. was l)oni in Laurens district, S.C. Oct 27, 18",'3; son of John \V. and Elizabeth (Saterwhite) Simpson, and grandson of Col. Jolin and Mary (Wells) Sitnpson, who immigrated from Belfast, Ireland. He attended the academy at Liiurens, S.C, and was grad- uated from South Carolina college, in 1843. He attended the Harvard Law scliool for one term; was admitted to the bar in 1816, and practised in I^uirens. He was married in March, 1847, to Jane E., daughter of H. C. Young, of Laurens, S.C, and had eight children, five being sons. He was several times a representative intiie state legisla- ture and state senator, and in 1861 entered the Con- federate army as aide-de-camp to Gen. M. L. Bon- ham. He became major of the 14th South Carolina regiment, and its lieutenant-colonel, and was a representative in the 1st and 2d Confederate con- gresses, 1862-65. He was elected a representative in the 41st U.S. congress, in 1868, but was refused admittance by the Republican house on the ground of being disqualified under the 14th constitutional amendment. He was lieutenant- governor of South Carolina, 1876-79; governor. as successor to Wade Hampton (q.v.), 1879-80, and \vas chief-justice of the state supreme court, 1880-90. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the South Carolina college. He died in Columbia, S.C, Dec. 27, 1890.

SIMS, Charles N., educator, was born in Union county, Ind., May 18, 1835; son of John and Irene (.\llen) Sims; grandson of William and Mary Sims; and of Joseph and Mary Allen, and a descendant of William Sims of Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier. On Aug. 12, 1858, he was married to Eliza A. Foster, of Warren county, Ind. He was graduated at the Indiana Asbury university, A.B., 1859, A.M., 1861, and at Ohio Wesleyan university, A.M., 1860. He was prin- cipal of the Thorntown academy, 1857-59, presi- dent of Valparaiso college, Ind., 1860-62; pastor of Methodist churches at Richmond, Ind., 1862- 63; Wabash, Ind., 1864; Evansville, Ind., 1865-66, Meridan Street church, Indianapolis, Ind., 1867- 69 and 1893-98; Baltimore, Md., 1870-72; Newark, N.J., 1873-75; Brooklyn, N.Y., 1876-80. In 1875 he declined the presidency of the Illinois We.sley- an university, Bloomington; waselected chancel- lor of Syracuse university, 1881, and became also pastor of the First Cliurch at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1898. He wa.s delegate to the Centennial Confer- ence of Methodism in 1884, to the General Confer- ence. 1884 and 1888, and was commissioner to the Onondaga Indians, 1884-85. Indiana Asbury uni- versity conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in

1870, and that of LL.D. in 1883. He is the author of the Temperance Problem (1872); Life of T. M. Eddy, D.D. (1877), and Itinerary Time Limit (1879).

SIMS, Clifford Stanley, jurist, was l^orn in Dauphin county. Pa., Feb. 17, 1839; son of John Clarke and Emiline Marion (Clark) Sims; grand- son of John and Mary (Neale) Sims; descendant of Maj. John Ross, and of Surgeon Alexander Ross of the Continental army. He attended the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal church in Piiiladelpliia, Pa., and in 1860 was admitted to the bar. He was acting paymaster in tiie U.S. navy, 1862-64, and in 1864 was appointed lieuten- ant-colonel of the 4tli Arkansas union volunteers, but was taken prisoner before he assumed com- mand. He was married in August. 1865. to Mary Josephine, daughter of Charles Steadman and Mary Caroline (Bowman) Abercrombie of Mem- phis, Tenn. He was a member of the Arkansas constitutional convention, 1867-68; was a repre- sentative in the legislature, 1868-69; judge-ad- vocate general of the state in 1868, and U.S. consul at Ottawa, 1869-78. He was connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad in financial and legal matters, 1878-94, and lived at Mount Holly, N.J. He was a judge of the New Jersey court of errors and appeals, 1894-96, and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of the state of New Jersey, being its president for many years until March 3, 1896. He is the autlior of: Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames (1862); The Institution of the Society of the Cincinn'ati in the State of New Jersey (1866); and Noye's ]\Ia.vims of the Laws of England (1870). He died in Tren- ton, N.J., on his way to court, March 3, 1896.

SIMS, James Marion, physician, was born in Lancaster district, S.C, Jan. 25, 1813. He was graduated from South Carolina college in 1832, and from the Jefferson Medical college. Pa., in 1835. He established himself in practice in Mont- gomery, Ala., in 1836; was married, Dec. 21, 1836, to Eliza Theresa, daughter of Dr. Bartlett Jones of Lancaster, S.C, and in 1848 founded a private hospital in Montgomery. He removed to New York in 1853; founded the Woman's Hospital as- sociation, studied hospital construction in Europe, and on his return secured the adoption of the pavilion system. He was in Paris, on the out- break of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and commanded as surgeon-in-chief, a hospital corps composed of Englishmen and Americans. He was a member of the American Medical associa- tion, coiTesponding fellow of the Imperial Aca- demy of Medicine at Brussels, president of the American Medical association, and a member of various other prominent medical societies at liome and abroad. He received the order of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French