Hon. Thomas Hardy Simes of Portsmouth, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 873

     HON. THOMAS HARDY SIMES, of Portsmouth, N. H., a prom-
inent member of the Rockingham County bar, was born in this city

Page 874

September 5, 1876, the youngest son of Nathan Parker and Mary I.
Simes.  The father, Nathan P. Simes, was the second son and third
child of Stephen Hardy and Ann Elizabeth (Yeaton) Simes, and was
born in Portsmouth, N. H., August 1, 1833.  When a youth he sailed
before the mast in the ship "Gento" in command of Captain William
Parker.  After serving his apprenticeship he advanced in time to be
master of the ship "Emily Farnum," owned by William Jones & Son,
of Portsmouth, and he continued in command of that vessel until after
the Civil war.  He was afterwards master of the British ship "Black
Wall," in the cotton trade, and during his life he circumnavigated the
entire world.  In 1875 he retired from active service.  His death took
place in Portsmouth, N. H., October 23, 1888, when he was 55 years
old.  He married I. Turner, daughter of William D. Turner, of Lon-
don and Liverpool, England.  Their children were: William Parker,
Frank Turner, Harold Lancaster, Alice Parker and Thomas Hardy.
     Thomas Hardy Simes began his education in a private school in
Portsmouth.  He was educated for the bar at the University of Vir-
ginia.  Returning to Portsmouth in 1897, he was admitted to the bar
in March, 1898, since which time he has been actively engaged in the
practice of law in this city.  He was appointed justice of the municipal
court in 1905, which position he held with distinction until the year
1913.  He is a member of the Federal Fire Society of Portsmouth.
Judge Simes married June 5, 1905, Catherine Murat Tayloe, daugh-
ter of General George E. Tayloe, of the Confederate States Army.  He
has one son, Stephen Hardy Simes, born May 11, 1907, and one daugh-
ter, Margaret Tayloe Simes, born January 24, 1909.