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SIMONS, Thomas Young, lawyer, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 1 October. 1828; died there, 30 April, 1878. He was graduated at Yale in 1847, and two years later began to practise law in his native city. In 1854-'60 he was a member of the legislature, and in the latter year a presidential elector. He was also a member of the convention that passed the ordinance of secession in December, 1860, and in the civil war he served as captain of the 27th South Carolina regiment, and later as judge-advocate. He was sent to the National Democratic conventions of 1860, 1868, and 1872, and was a member of the executive committee of his party from the latter year till 1876. Besides his other labors, he was editor of the Charleston "Courier" in 186,5-'73. In the tax-payers' conventions of 1871 and 1874 he was an active member, and his later years were identified with the efforts to procure local self-government and the creation of a Union reform party in South Carolina.
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