Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

James SIME, farmer, stone-mason and bricklayer; P. O. Wilmington; owns 160 acres, valued at 
$50 per acre; born in Fifeshire, Scotland, March 15, 1847; emigrated to the United States in 
1869, with his father, James SIME, Sr.; his mother and rest of the family followed soon after; 
they all located in Plainfield, Twp., this county; there his mother still resides; his father 
sustained injuries in his own house which proved fatal, from one John WILEY, who was giving 
them unnecessary disturbance while in a semi-drunken and epileptic fit, Oct. 2, 1876. Married 
Maggie DOUGLAS March 30, 1875, in Chicago; she was born in Newark, N. J., Oct. 21, 1853, and 
came to Wilmington, this county, with her parents in 1872; have one child - James. Mr. S. 
worked on the building of the Iron Works at Joliet for six years; four and a half years of 
said time he was foreman on the building; also built the masonry along the line of the D. 
between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers.