The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . War, liavini;- for (deven yearspreviously been ill tin- renular army under (ieneral Win-fiidd Scott. He ])articipated in the Seminole and otherfrontier wars, and died from the effects of wounds r<ceivedin the bailie (d the Wilderness. On the maternal side Seidell ancesl(Us were militai-y men of valor undertlie kiuiis of Scotlanil back to llii ninth century. The lamilv removed to Newark when the subject id this skeh h wasa small (diild. W. Scott Sims was i^raduated from llie Newark Hi^liSiliool in ISIil. lie served the C
The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . War, liavini;- for (deven yearspreviously been ill tin- renular army under (ieneral Win-fiidd Scott. He ])articipated in the Seminole and otherfrontier wars, and died from the effects of wounds r<ceivedin the bailie (d the Wilderness. On the maternal side Seidell ancesl(Us were militai-y men of valor undertlie kiuiis of Scotlanil back to llii ninth century. The lamilv removed to Newark when the subject id this skeh h wasa small (diild. W. Scott Sims was i^raduated from llie Newark Hi^liSiliool in ISIil. lie served the Civil War in theThiily-seveiith New Jersey iJe^iment. IJeturniiiij home, heturned his attention lo ihe Invenlion of electric ajiparatiisand devised various im]»roveiiienls in (dectro-maiiiiets. InlS7l he constructed an electric motor tu be used Iur liglit 178 THE PASSAIC VALLEY work. Bj means of this motor, weighing forty-five pounds,and a battery of twenty lialf-gallon Bunsen cells, he wasable to propel an open boat sixteen feet long, with six per-.
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