Paris Marion Simms

Background

Simms, Paris Marion was born on May 2, 1869 in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, United States. Son of Andrew Francis and Martha Ann (Bryan) Simms.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Cumberland University, 1899, Bachelor of Divinity, same, 1902, Doctor of Philosophy, 1907.

Career

Ordained ministry Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1893 (transferred to Presbyterian Church, United States of America, at time of union, 1907). Registrar Cumberland University, 1902-1906, also acting president Pastor 1st Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Saint Joseph, Missouri, 1906-1907, 1st Presbyterian Church, Vinton, Iowa, 1907-1916.

With Iowa Congressional Hospital, 1916-1917.

Army Young Men's Christian Association work, World War I. Field secretary American Tract Society in Iowa, 1918-1920.

Field agent for Near East Relief in Iowa, 1920-1924. Commissioner to General Assembly Cumberland Presbyterian Church 4 years in succession, Chatauqua lecturer, 1909-1926. The only man who ever went on the chautauqua platform with a lecture, “The Calf Path,” devoted wholly to a plea for the union of Protestantism.

Owns probably the largest private collection of versions of the Bible, or its parts, in English in America, now loaned to the McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois Pastor Presbyterian churches in Nebraska, 1924-1939.

Pastor in Kansas, 1939-1942. Director finance, Nebraska Christian Endeavor Union, 1927-1932.

Retired, September 1943.

Achievements

• Paris Marion Simms has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, lecturer. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Pi Kappa Alpha.

Connections

Married Edna Earl Johnson, June 8, 1893. Children: Burney Gilmore, P. Marion.

Father:

Andrew Francis Simms

Mother:

Martha Ann (Bryan) Simms

Spouse:

Edna Earl Johnson

child:

Burney Gilmore Simms

child:

P. Marion Simms