Simmons, John, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, was born in Hancock County, (ia., Nov. 6, 1791. In his nineteenth year he united with the Church, and in 1815 was admitted into the South Carolina Conference. After four or five vears he lo- cated, the better to provide for his family; but he still continued to labor. He organized societies, and even erected a church at his own expense. In 1847 Mr. Simmons was readmitted into the Georgia Conference, and again entered upon the regular work of the min- istry, until compelled to take a superannuated relation. This relation he sustained until his death, in Upson County, Ga., Dec. 12, 1865. See Afinutes of Annual Conferences, M. E. Church, South, 1866, p. 24.
Simmons, John C, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Jackson County, (Ja., in 1806. In 1830 he was received on trial into the Georgia Conference, and labored thirty-eight years, most of the time as presiding elder. He died in 1868. See Minutes of Ann. Conf. of M. E. Ch., South, 1869, p. 319.
Simmons, Perry A., a minister of the JMethodist Episcopal Cliurch, was bf)rn in Macon County, Tenn., Dec. 1, 1833, and united with the Cliurch at tiie age of fifteen. He received license to preach in 18,54, removed to Missouri in 1861, and in 1868 united with the Mis- souri Conference. He was superannuated in 1870, and located at his own request in 1872. In 1875 he was readmitted to the conference, but died, near Lancaster, Schuyler Co., Mo., Oct. 3, 1876. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, 1876. p. 77.
Simmons, "William, a minister of the IMethodist Episcopal Church, was born in JMason County, Ky., Jinie 24, 1798, and removed with his parents the next year to Ohio. He was converted in 1816, licensed to preach July 17, 1820, and received on trial the same year bv
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the Ohio Conference. In his early ministry he trav- elled over extensive territory; and in 1825, besides be- ing pastor of the church in Detroit, Mich., he served as presiding elder of a district including the whole of that state and a part of Northern Ohio. His relation to his conference, during fifty-four years, was always effective. He was an agent of the Freedman's Aid Society for a number of years, up to the time of his death, Aug. 6, 1874. For several years he was president of the trustees of Xenia College. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 102.
Simmons, "William S., a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was born in Bristol, R. I., Sept. 24, 1813, and was converted at the age of sixteen. Hav- ing received a good education, and having served as a supply for two years, he joined the New England Con- ference on trial, Jime, 1839. He was ordained deacon, June 13, 1841 ; and elder, Jime 11, 1843. His last ap- pointment was Hopeville, Providence Conference, where he died, Jan. 4, 1867. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, 1867, p. 102.
Simois, in Grecian mythologj', was the god of the river Simois, which joins the Scamander, or Xanthus, in the plain of Troy. He was the son of Ocean us and Tethys, and father of Astyoche and Hieromneme.
Simon, in Grecian mythology, was one of the Tyr- rhenian pirates who attempted to enslave the youthful Bacchus and were by him turned into dolphins.
Si'mon (Si/twi'), a name of frequent occurrence in Jewish history in the post - Babylonian period. We here present those found in the Apocrypha, the New Test., and Josephus. It is doubtful whether it was borrowed from the Greeks, with whom it was not un- common, or whether it was a contraction of the He- brew Shimeon, i. e. Simeon. That the tvvo names were regarded as identical appears from 1 Mace, ii, 65,
1. Simon Chosam.eus, a name that erroneously ap- pears in 1 Esdr. ix, 32, in place of the four names " Shim- eon, Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah" of the He- brew text (Ezra x, 31, 32), " Chosamaeus" is apparent- 1}- formed by combining the last letter of Malluch with the first part of the following name, Shemariah,
2. Second son of Mattathias and last survivor of the Maccabaian brothers. See Maccabee, 4.
3. Son of Onias, whom he succeeded in the high- priesthood (B.C. 302-293), being himself succeeded by his uncle Eleazar, although he left a son also called Onias (Josephus, Ant. xii, 2, 5; 4, 1, 10). He is gener- allj- called " .Simon the Just." See the following article, No. 6. He is doubtless identical with the son of Onias the high-priest (^aptvQ 6 /uyae), whose eulogj' closes the "praise of famous men" in the book of Ecclesiasti- cus (ch. iv). See Ecclesiasticus. Fritzsche, whose edition of Ecclesiasticus (^Exec/. Handb.') appeared in 1860, maintains the common view that the reference is to Simon II, but without bringing forward any new arguments to support it, though he strangely under- rates the importance of Simon I (the Just). \\'itIiout laying undue stress upon the traditions which attaclied to this name (Herzfeld, Gesch. Isr. i, 195), it is evident that Simon the Just was popularly regarded as closing a period in Jewish historv, as the last teacher of " the great synagogue." Yet there is, in fact, a doubt to which Simon the title " the Just" was given. Herz- feld (i, 377, 378) has endeavored to prove that it bc- lonsjs to Sitnon II, and not to Simon I, and in this he is followed bj' Jost (Gesch. d. Judenth. i, 95). The later Hebrew authorities, by whose help the question should be settled, are extremely imsatisfactory and confused (Jost, p. 1 10, etc) ; and it appears better to adhere to the express testimoin' of Josephus, who identifies Simon I with Simon the .hist {Ant. xii, 2, 4, etc), than to follow the Talmudic traditions, which are notoriously untrust- worthy in chronologv. The legends are connected with the title, and Herzfeld and .Jost both agree in supposnig that the reference in Ecclesiasticus is to Simon known