When Dr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims was born on 22 April 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, his father, William Sowden Sims, was 57 and his mother, Anne Erwin Hitchcock, was 41. He was the last of their five children and named after his maternal grandfather, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who died in 1909.
In 1936, when he was 20 years of age and in college, his father died.
At age 23, while still a medical student, he married Dorothea Foote Merriman on 5 August 1939.
He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1930 and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. He resided in South Burlington, Vermont from 1950-93, while working as a physician and a professor at the University of Vermont (UVM), researching metabolism and diabetes.
He was a descendant of Ethan Allen, who was a self-educated philosopher and the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, who fought for a Vermont republic and independence for the nation.
Of his lineage, Sims had said: "If you look at the genetics of it, the actual DNA, I figure that the most DNA I could have gotten from Allen (his great-great-great-grandfather) would be one-thirty-second. If you look at the family tree in reverse, like a pyramid upside down, there must be a lot of ancestors who were embezzlers, thieves and Republicans everything undesirable."
He owned one of the original copies of Ethan Allen's 1784 book, "Reason: the Only Oracle of Man" which had been published in Bennington, Vermont and was passed down through the generations of the family. There is a notation written on that book's front piece, written by Dr. Sim's maternal grandfather, Ethan Allen Hitchcock (United States Secretary of the Interior [1899–1907], United States Ambassador to Russia [1897–1899]): "This is a work of my grandfather, and is simply curious for me." (It is actually a work of Ethan Allen Hitchcock's great-grandfather.)
Dr. Sims read it and found Ethan Allen's ideas about the natural world, including astronomy, particularly worthwhile. (Even if getting to those ideas means, as he noted in a 2000 interview, working your way through paragraphs that hold "the Guinness Book of World Record for length.")
Dr. Sims, who was also a scientist and a Unitarian, was interested in the relation between science and the "mysterious forces within us" -- a connection his ancestor had explored more than two centuries prior. Dr. Sims had stated of the work, "It's interesting to see how he jibes with Einstein and Schweitzer. He was really a transcendentalist."
Dr. Sims left this mortal coil on 9 November 2010, in Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 94. He was survived by his three children: Ethan A. H. Sims, Jr., Dr. Dorothea McArthur (and her husband David), and Dr. Nathaniel M. Sims (and his wife Dr. Katherine Sims).
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims' genealogy from Ethan Allen:
• Ethan Allen (1738-1789) m. in 1762 Mary Brownson (1732-1783). The third of their five children was Lucy Caroline Allen.
• Lucy Caroline Allen (1768-1842) m. in 1789 Judge Samuel Hitchcock (1755-1813) [the 1st Attorney General of Vermont, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit]. The second of their two children was Judge Henry Hitchcock.
• Judge Henry Hitchcock (1792-1839) [the first Attorney General of Alabama] m. in 1821 Anne Erwin (1803-1854). The fifth of their eight children is Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
• Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1835-1909) [the first Ambassador accredited from the United States to the court of Russia & the 22nd United States Secretary of the Interior] m. in 1869 Margaret Dwight Collier (1839-1912). The second of their two children wass Anne Erwin Hitchcock.
• Anne Erwin Hitchcock (1875-1960) m. in 1905 Adm. William Sowden Sims (1858-1937). The fifth of their five children was Dr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims.
In 1936, when he was 20 years of age and in college, his father died.
At age 23, while still a medical student, he married Dorothea Foote Merriman on 5 August 1939.
He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1930 and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. He resided in South Burlington, Vermont from 1950-93, while working as a physician and a professor at the University of Vermont (UVM), researching metabolism and diabetes.
He was a descendant of Ethan Allen, who was a self-educated philosopher and the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, who fought for a Vermont republic and independence for the nation.
Of his lineage, Sims had said: "If you look at the genetics of it, the actual DNA, I figure that the most DNA I could have gotten from Allen (his great-great-great-grandfather) would be one-thirty-second. If you look at the family tree in reverse, like a pyramid upside down, there must be a lot of ancestors who were embezzlers, thieves and Republicans everything undesirable."
He owned one of the original copies of Ethan Allen's 1784 book, "Reason: the Only Oracle of Man" which had been published in Bennington, Vermont and was passed down through the generations of the family. There is a notation written on that book's front piece, written by Dr. Sim's maternal grandfather, Ethan Allen Hitchcock (United States Secretary of the Interior [1899–1907], United States Ambassador to Russia [1897–1899]): "This is a work of my grandfather, and is simply curious for me." (It is actually a work of Ethan Allen Hitchcock's great-grandfather.)
Dr. Sims read it and found Ethan Allen's ideas about the natural world, including astronomy, particularly worthwhile. (Even if getting to those ideas means, as he noted in a 2000 interview, working your way through paragraphs that hold "the Guinness Book of World Record for length.")
Dr. Sims, who was also a scientist and a Unitarian, was interested in the relation between science and the "mysterious forces within us" -- a connection his ancestor had explored more than two centuries prior. Dr. Sims had stated of the work, "It's interesting to see how he jibes with Einstein and Schweitzer. He was really a transcendentalist."
Dr. Sims left this mortal coil on 9 November 2010, in Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 94. He was survived by his three children: Ethan A. H. Sims, Jr., Dr. Dorothea McArthur (and her husband David), and Dr. Nathaniel M. Sims (and his wife Dr. Katherine Sims).
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims' genealogy from Ethan Allen:
• Ethan Allen (1738-1789) m. in 1762 Mary Brownson (1732-1783). The third of their five children was Lucy Caroline Allen.
• Lucy Caroline Allen (1768-1842) m. in 1789 Judge Samuel Hitchcock (1755-1813) [the 1st Attorney General of Vermont, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit]. The second of their two children was Judge Henry Hitchcock.
• Judge Henry Hitchcock (1792-1839) [the first Attorney General of Alabama] m. in 1821 Anne Erwin (1803-1854). The fifth of their eight children is Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
• Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1835-1909) [the first Ambassador accredited from the United States to the court of Russia & the 22nd United States Secretary of the Interior] m. in 1869 Margaret Dwight Collier (1839-1912). The second of their two children wass Anne Erwin Hitchcock.
• Anne Erwin Hitchcock (1875-1960) m. in 1905 Adm. William Sowden Sims (1858-1937). The fifth of their five children was Dr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims.
When Dr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims was born on 22 April 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, his father, William Sowden Sims, was 57 and his mother, Anne Erwin Hitchcock, was 41. He was the last of their five children and named after his maternal grandfather, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who died in 1909.
In 1936, when he was 20 years of age and in college, his father died.
At age 23, while still a medical student, he married Dorothea Foote Merriman on 5 August 1939.
He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1930 and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. He resided in South Burlington, Vermont from 1950-93, while working as a physician and a professor at the University of Vermont (UVM), researching metabolism and diabetes.
He was a descendant of Ethan Allen, who was a self-educated philosopher and the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, who fought for a Vermont republic and independence for the nation.
Of his lineage, Sims had said: "If you look at the genetics of it, the actual DNA, I figure that the most DNA I could have gotten from Allen (his great-great-great-grandfather) would be one-thirty-second. If you look at the family tree in reverse, like a pyramid upside down, there must be a lot of ancestors who were embezzlers, thieves and Republicans everything undesirable."
He owned one of the original copies of Ethan Allen's 1784 book, "Reason: the Only Oracle of Man" which had been published in Bennington, Vermont and was passed down through the generations of the family. There is a notation written on that book's front piece, written by Dr. Sim's maternal grandfather, Ethan Allen Hitchcock (United States Secretary of the Interior [1899–1907], United States Ambassador to Russia [1897–1899]): "This is a work of my grandfather, and is simply curious for me." (It is actually a work of Ethan Allen Hitchcock's great-grandfather.)
Dr. Sims read it and found Ethan Allen's ideas about the natural world, including astronomy, particularly worthwhile. (Even if getting to those ideas means, as he noted in a 2000 interview, working your way through paragraphs that hold "the Guinness Book of World Record for length.")
Dr. Sims, who was also a scientist and a Unitarian, was interested in the relation between science and the "mysterious forces within us" -- a connection his ancestor had explored more than two centuries prior. Dr. Sims had stated of the work, "It's interesting to see how he jibes with Einstein and Schweitzer. He was really a transcendentalist."
Dr. Sims left this mortal coil on 9 November 2010, in Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 94. He was survived by his three children: Ethan A. H. Sims, Jr., Dr. Dorothea McArthur (and her husband David), and Dr. Nathaniel M. Sims (and his wife Dr. Katherine Sims).
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims' genealogy from Ethan Allen:
• Ethan Allen (1738-1789) m. in 1762 Mary Brownson (1732-1783). The third of their five children was Lucy Caroline Allen.
• Lucy Caroline Allen (1768-1842) m. in 1789 Judge Samuel Hitchcock (1755-1813) [the 1st Attorney General of Vermont, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit]. The second of their two children was Judge Henry Hitchcock.
• Judge Henry Hitchcock (1792-1839) [the first Attorney General of Alabama] m. in 1821 Anne Erwin (1803-1854). The fifth of their eight children is Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
• Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1835-1909) [the first Ambassador accredited from the United States to the court of Russia & the 22nd United States Secretary of the Interior] m. in 1869 Margaret Dwight Collier (1839-1912). The second of their two children wass Anne Erwin Hitchcock.
• Anne Erwin Hitchcock (1875-1960) m. in 1905 Adm. William Sowden Sims (1858-1937). The fifth of their five children was Dr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims.
In 1936, when he was 20 years of age and in college, his father died.
At age 23, while still a medical student, he married Dorothea Foote Merriman on 5 August 1939.
He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1930 and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. He resided in South Burlington, Vermont from 1950-93, while working as a physician and a professor at the University of Vermont (UVM), researching metabolism and diabetes.
He was a descendant of Ethan Allen, who was a self-educated philosopher and the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, who fought for a Vermont republic and independence for the nation.
Of his lineage, Sims had said: "If you look at the genetics of it, the actual DNA, I figure that the most DNA I could have gotten from Allen (his great-great-great-grandfather) would be one-thirty-second. If you look at the family tree in reverse, like a pyramid upside down, there must be a lot of ancestors who were embezzlers, thieves and Republicans everything undesirable."
He owned one of the original copies of Ethan Allen's 1784 book, "Reason: the Only Oracle of Man" which had been published in Bennington, Vermont and was passed down through the generations of the family. There is a notation written on that book's front piece, written by Dr. Sim's maternal grandfather, Ethan Allen Hitchcock (United States Secretary of the Interior [1899–1907], United States Ambassador to Russia [1897–1899]): "This is a work of my grandfather, and is simply curious for me." (It is actually a work of Ethan Allen Hitchcock's great-grandfather.)
Dr. Sims read it and found Ethan Allen's ideas about the natural world, including astronomy, particularly worthwhile. (Even if getting to those ideas means, as he noted in a 2000 interview, working your way through paragraphs that hold "the Guinness Book of World Record for length.")
Dr. Sims, who was also a scientist and a Unitarian, was interested in the relation between science and the "mysterious forces within us" -- a connection his ancestor had explored more than two centuries prior. Dr. Sims had stated of the work, "It's interesting to see how he jibes with Einstein and Schweitzer. He was really a transcendentalist."
Dr. Sims left this mortal coil on 9 November 2010, in Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 94. He was survived by his three children: Ethan A. H. Sims, Jr., Dr. Dorothea McArthur (and her husband David), and Dr. Nathaniel M. Sims (and his wife Dr. Katherine Sims).
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims' genealogy from Ethan Allen:
• Ethan Allen (1738-1789) m. in 1762 Mary Brownson (1732-1783). The third of their five children was Lucy Caroline Allen.
• Lucy Caroline Allen (1768-1842) m. in 1789 Judge Samuel Hitchcock (1755-1813) [the 1st Attorney General of Vermont, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit]. The second of their two children was Judge Henry Hitchcock.
• Judge Henry Hitchcock (1792-1839) [the first Attorney General of Alabama] m. in 1821 Anne Erwin (1803-1854). The fifth of their eight children is Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
• Judge Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1835-1909) [the first Ambassador accredited from the United States to the court of Russia & the 22nd United States Secretary of the Interior] m. in 1869 Margaret Dwight Collier (1839-1912). The second of their two children wass Anne Erwin Hitchcock.
• Anne Erwin Hitchcock (1875-1960) m. in 1905 Adm. William Sowden Sims (1858-1937). The fifth of their five children was Dr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock Sims.
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