Background
Simms, Stephen Chapman was born on March 22, 1863 in Georgetown, District of Columbia. Son of Joseph Libbey and Rosa Margaret (Edmonston) Simms.
Simms, Stephen Chapman was born on March 22, 1863 in Georgetown, District of Columbia. Son of Joseph Libbey and Rosa Margaret (Edmonston) Simms.
Private school education.
Ephraim Whitlock, of Brooklyn, April 23, 1891. Reporter, correspondent, assistant managing editor, 1884-1890. Assistant secretary and charge d’affaires, department foreign affairs, Chicago Exposition, 1891-1894.
Royal Portuguese vice-consul, Chicago, 1892, consul, since 1918.
Representative of late Sultan of Johore, Straits Settlement, during Chicago Exposition. Appointed assistant curator of industrial arts, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1894, and continued with the Museum, as assistant curator of ethnology, 1894-1912, curator of North.W. Harris Public school extension, 1912-1928, director of the Museum, July since 1928.
Ethnologist in charge division of ethnology, department anthropology, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Member Superior Jury of International Jury of Awards, Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, 1915.
Vice-president and secretary International Jury of Awards, Sesquicentennial International Exposition, 1926.
Member Superior Jury of International Jury of Awards, Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, 1915.
Married Margaret Elizabeth, daughter