by reason of his unfaltering industry became the possessor of a comfortable competence. He died in 1895, while his wife passed away April 20, 1901. Unto him and his wife were born ten children: Jennie, now the wife of I. A. Ringheim of Nevada; John, who died in Illinois; T. C., of this review; Lewis, who died in Story county; Cohen, who died in Hardin county : Sarah, who became the wife of Frank Lee and passed away in Hardin county ; Martha, who resides with her brother T. C. Sime ; and three who died in, infancy.
No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for T. C.. Sime in his boyhood and youth. He worked with his father in the fields and in the public schools acquired his education, devoting his attention to the crops when not busy with his text-books. He continued at home up to the time of his marriage and then engaged in teaching school for a time.
On the 1st of March, 1877, in Nevada, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Sime and Miss Fannie J. Patrick, who was born in Kentucky, June 10, 1854, and spent a portion of her girlhood in Illinois, coming from Fulton, that state, to Iowa in 1873. On the paternal side she traces her ancestry back to 1685, when Elder Patrick, a very wealthy gentleman, emigrated to America from the north of Ireland. He had sixteen grandsons, to all of whom he gave college educations, requiring each to select a profession and graduate in the same. Mrs. Sime's grandfather, Dr. Asa Patrick, was born in Worchester, Massachusetts, in 1778, but lived the greater part of his life near Toronto, Canada. His son William was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman and for many years, up to the time of his death, was a member of parliament. At that time the seat of government alternated between Toronto and Quebec. Mrs. Sime's father, who was an artist by profession, died during her youth, as did also her mother and brother. Her maternal grandfather, Thomas Exley, was an Englishman by birth, who came to this country in early manhood and established and successfully operated two woolen mills in New Jersey. In 1845, in company with his wife, Betsey, and their children, he removed to Whiteside county, Illinois. His wife was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and was the mother of ten children, including Jane, the mother of Mrs. Sime.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sime have been born five children : C. Earl, who is now conducting a sheep ranch near Glendive, Montana; Bessie L., the wife of Wallace Miller, a farmer, of Mitchell, South Dakota; Ella J., the wife of J. L. Krogstad, who is engaged in the lumber business at Winona, Minnesota ; Arthur G., who is engaged in conducting a sheep and horse ranch near Glendive, Montana ; Nettie E., a student in the State Normal School at Winona, Minnesota.
Mr. Sime has devoted the greater part of his life to farming with the exception of a period of eleven years spent in well drilling and prospecting for coal, during which period he resided in Hubbard, Hardin county, Iowa. He is now the joint owner with his sister Martha of two hundred