Simmons, REVEREND JOHN VINCENT

b. at Exe- Sloane, Cuartes WILLIAM, LL.B., LL.D., lawyer, ter, Otsego County, N. Y., 21 March, 1858. Educab. in New York, 1 January, 1850. Education: St. tion: St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada; St. Francis Xavier’s College and Law School of Colum- Francis Xavier’s College and Manhattan College; bia College, New York. Admitted to the New York St. Joseph’s Seminary, Troy, New York. Ordained Bar 1871; married Nina Byron, daughter of the late 1886; succe ively a istant pastor at Skaneateles George G. Byron, of South Orange, New Jersey; (ten months), Utica (two months) and Pompey (three resident at Sands Point, New York. Member of the years), New York; pastor at Pompey 1891-1896; Board of Directors of THe CaTHoitic ENCYCLOPEDIA; rector, St. Paul’s Church, Binghamton, New York, member and former president, St. Francis Xavier’s 1896- Built churches at Pompey and Fabius, Alumni A ociation; member and former vice-presi- New York, leaving no debt; organized St. Paul’s dent, United States Catholic Historical Society; parish and built church, Binghamton; instrumental member of the Bar A ociation of the City of New in having law pa ed favorable to Catholic church York and the University Club. Author of: ‘“Treaproperty. tise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant” (New ARTICLE: Wuirs, Epwarp. York, 1884); contributor to: “Albany Law Journal’; ‘United States Catholic Historical Society,