Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Sims, J. A. 1850 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 15, 2006, 3:29 am Author: Goodspeed (1884) DR. J. A. SIMS, a native of Greene County, Ind., and a successful physician at Newberry, was born in Beech Creek Township, July 23, 1850, and is one of six living children in a family of nine born to Alston and Martha A. (Wilson) Sims. Alston Sims was born in Monroe County, Ind., in about 1817, a son of Alexander and Barbara Ann Sims, who were natives respectively of Virginia and Tennessee. These grandparents of Dr. Sims emigrated to Monroe County, Ind., a year previous to the admission of the State into the Union, but afterward moved to Beech Creek Township, this county, where they finally died. Alston and Anderson Sims entered land in Beech Creek Township at an early day, and were the first of their family to endure the hardships of pioneer life in Greene County. The former married his wife in Owen County, and resided at their home in this county until the fall of 1883, when they sold out and moved to Jack County, Tex., which is at present their home. J. A. Sims was raised in a similar way, as were the majority of the boys at that day. At the age of seventeen years, he began teaching school, and for thirteen terms of five months each pursued this vocation with gratifying success. On the 19th of October, 1873, Miss Alice Rice became his wife, and this same year he began the study of medicine. In 1875, he moved to Newark, and while pursuing his studies under the advisement of Dr. M. L. Holt, he taught the village school two terms, then took a course of lectures at the Medical College of Indiana, and the spring of 1878 began practicing at Newark as an equal partner of his preceptor. The fall of 1878, he returned to his old alma mater, graduating in 1879. In July of the last-named year, Dr. Sims located in Newberry, where he has since practiced his profession with good success. He is a member of the Odd Fellows' fraternity; is a Democrat in politics; himself and wife are members of the Christian Church, and the parents of two children—Carrie, born October 19, 1874, and Lenna, born September 3, 1882. Additional Comments: Cass Township Biographies Extracted from: HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/greene/bios/sims560nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb