SIMS, Alexander Dromgoole, congressman, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, 11 June, 1803; died in Kingstree, South Carolina, 11 November, 1848. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, and was graduated at Union in 18e3, studied law, and after practising in his native county, removed to Darlington, South Carolina, where he taught for five years, and afterward practised his profession with success, He was a member of the legislature in 1840-'4, and was elected to congress as a state-rights Democrat, serving from 1 December, 1845, till his death, He published a controversial paper on slavery and a novel entitled " Bevil Faulcon" (1842).--His brother, Edward Dromgoole, educator, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, 24 March, 1805; died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 12 April, 1845, was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1824, became principal of an academy at La Grange, Alabama, was afterward professor of mathematics in La Grange college, entered the Tennessee conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1831, and, after serving for two years as an itinerant preacher, became professor of ancient languages at Randolph Macon college. He went to Europe in 1836, studied Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac for two years at the University of Halle, spent a year in travel, and on his return to the United States assumed the chair of English literature at Randolph Macon. Prom 1842 till his death he taught the same subject in the University of Alabama. He was the first to teach Anglo-Saxon in connection with English literature in the south, and was preparing grammars of English and Anglo-Saxon at the time of his death.