William T. Sim, Sim Bros. & Spurgin, P. O., Brownsville. W. T. Sim is the son of Alexander and Ann Sim, and was born in Scotland, April 7, 1840. He was educated at Aberdeen, and his early life spent in his father’s carriage manufactury at Newcastle-on-Tyne, one of the largest carriage manufactories in Great Britain, and afterwards worked at the principal shops in London. In October, 1865, he was married to Mary Edridge, of London, and in the fall of the same year came to the United States, and first settled in South Carolina, where he remained several years, and then removed to St. Louis and stayed about eighteen months. He then went to southwest Missouri, and spent six years in farming. He then moved to Brownsville, in this county, where he established his present business. He had eight children, three of whom are living: Maggie, Walter and Alexander. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and also of the A. O. U. W. The firm is doing a prosperous business in Brownsville; and also have a large building on Lexington avenue. Alexander Sim was born November 27, 1832, and came to the United States in 1860, and has been engaged in the carriage manufacturing business all his life, and is now at the head of the firm of Sim Bros. & Spurgin.
