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WILLIAM SCOTT SIMS was born in Warren township, Clinton county, Ind. , January
19, 1855, son of Lewis and Courtney (Scott) Sims. Until twenty-one years of
age he lived on his father's farm, pursued his studies in the common schools,
and when seventeen began teach-ing, which profession he continued during the
winter of 1872-3 in Warren township. The following spring and winter he
attended school, and for three terms was a student in the National Normal
school of Lebanon, Ohio, where he obtained a knowledge of the more advanced
branches of learning. In the meantime, he taught in the township of Madison,
and from 1876 to 1885 was similarly engaged in the town of Mulberry, and in
the spring of 1879 spent three months in Wabash college at Crawfordsville. In
1885, Mr. Sims was elected superintendent of the Clinton county schools, the
duties of which position he discharged in a very creditable manner for two
years, and in 1887 became deputy county auditor under Wilson T. Cooper,
continuing in that capacity about two and a half years. Subsequently, he held
the position of deputy treasurer under William J. Barnett and W. T. Maish, and
in 1891 engaged in the loan, abstract and insurance business, to which he has
since devoted his attention.
Mr. Sims has been a member of the school board of Frankfort for four years,
and during his incumbency many improvements have been made, including the
addition to the first ward school building and rebuilding the third ward
school building, also the construction of the present magnificent high school
building, the finest structure of the kind in the state. In matters
educational, Mr. Sims has always manifested great interest. and during his
term as superintendent he did much toward systematizing a uniform course of
study and securing teachers of well known professional ability. He is clerk
of the board of turnpike directors, is public spirited in all the term
implies, and all movements having for their object the public good find in him
a zealous friend and liberal patron. He represents four of the largest
insurance companies in the country, has in his office a complete abstract of
every piece of property in Clinton county, and his loan and real estate
business, with the two departments mentioned, is quite extensive and
remunerative. Mr. Sims. is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he
has held the highest position within the gift of the local lodge, and also
belongs to the Sons of Veterans. On the twentieth of May, 1880, in the
township of Madison, he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Kyger, daughter of
James and Mary A. (Smith) Kyger, to which union three children have been born-
two living at this time, Merlin and Cecil. In politics Mr. Sims affiliates
with the republican party, and he is one of the few persons that holds a life
license to teach in any part of Indiana, granted by the state board of
education.
Transcribed by Chris Brown from pages 857-858 of "A Portrait And Biographical
Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," published in 1895 by A.W. Bowen &
Co. Chicago.