{"id":2167,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2167"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"sims, henry upson, 1873-1961  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"SIMS, HENRY UPSON, 1873-1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, writer.  Born&#8211;  June 27, 1873, in Columbus, Miss.  Parents&#8211;  William Henry  and Elizabeth Louisa (Upson) Sims.  Education&#8211;  University of Virginia, B.A.; Harvard LL.B.; University of Alabama, LL.D.; Southwestern College, LL.D.  Practiced law in Birmingham 1899-1933 and 1943-1953; chairman Central Committee Legal Advisory Board in 1917; member Special Supreme Court of Alabama to decide constitutionality of salary reduction bill in 1933.  Honorary member Canadian Bar Association and associate member New York Bar Association. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. IV; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chancery Pleading and Practice in Alabama.  Chicago;  Callagham &#038; Co., 1909.  <\/p>\n<p>     Covenants Which Run with the Land Other than Covenants of Title.  Chicago;  Callagham &#038; Co.,      1901. <\/p>\n<p>     The Genealogy of the Sims Family of Virginia, the Carolinas and the Gulf States.  Kansas City,      Mo.;  E. L. Mendenhall, 1940. <\/p>\n<p>     The Genealogy of the Worthington Family of Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia and Ohio.       Birmingham, Ala.;  s.n., 1937. <\/p>\n<p>     Occasional Addresses and Legal Essays.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Henry Upson Sims, 1926. <\/p>\n<p>     The Origin and Development of the Civilization of the Gulf States.  New Orleans;  Pelican Co.,      1952. <\/p>\n<p>     The Problem of Reforming Judicial Administration in America.  IV;  the Problem of Reforming the      Bar.  Charlottesville, Va.;  s.n., 1917. <\/p>\n<p>     A Treatise on Covenants Which Run with Land.  Chicago;  Callagham, 1901. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Annotator_For:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Restatement of the Law of Contracts as Adopted and Promulgated by the American Law                 Institute.  St. Paul;  American Law Institute, 1937. <\/p>\n<p>     The Restatement of the Law of Property, as Adopted and Promulgated by the American Law      Institute.  St. Paul;  American Law Institute, 1947. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>150 Great Hymns in the English Language.  Richmond, Va.;  Dietz Press, 1949.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, writer. Born&#8211; June 27, 1873, in Columbus, Miss. Parents&#8211; William Henry and Elizabeth Louisa (Upson) Sims. Education&#8211; University of Virginia, B.A.; Harvard LL.B.; University of Alabama, LL.D.; Southwestern College, LL.D. Practiced law in Birmingham 1899-1933 and 1943-1953; chairman Central Committee Legal Advisory Board in 1917; member Special Supreme Court of Alabama to decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}