Background
Henry Augustus Sims was born in 1832 in Canada.
Henry Augustus Sims was born in 1832 in Canada.
He practiced in the Dominion until 1860. The rest of his life was spent in Philadelphia, and although active for a comparatively short time (he died at the age of forty- three), Mr. Sims was known to have designed many large country estates and a number of public buildings, among them two churches in Philadelphia - the Second Presbyterian and the Columbia Avenue Church, also the County Court House at Hagerstown, Md.
One of the thirty charter members of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Institute, established in 1869, Mr. Sims was elected to the Board of Directors in 1871, also served as First Corresponding Secretary of the Institute from 1871 until his death.