Slocum, Jesse – Smilie, John
Slocum, Jesse
congressman. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1817 to 1820. He died Dec. 20, 1820, in Washington, D. C.
Slocum, William F
clergyman, college president, was born July 29, 1851, in Grafton, Mass. This eminent congregational clergyman has been professor of philosophy and president of Colorado college since 1888.
Sloss, Joseph H
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1826, in Somerville, Ala. He was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1858. He returned to Alabama, and joined the confederate army, in which he served until the close of the war. He was elected mayor of Tuscumbia after the war, and continued in that office until 1870. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.
SLOSSON, MRS. ANNIE [TRUM- BULL], author, was born in Connecticut.
She is known as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of moths. She is the author of Aunt Liefy; Fishin' Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehetabel Clark; Anna Malann; and The China Hunter's Club.
Slough, John P
soldier, state legislator, author, was born in 1829 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio state legislature, from which he was expelled for striking a member during debate. In 1852 he was chosen secretary of the central democratic committee. He soon after went to Kansas; and in 1860 removed to Denver city, Colo. On the breaking out of the civil war he served with credit on the southwestern frontiers; and was made a brigadier-general and military governor at Alexandria, in Virginia. At the close of the war he was appointed chief justice of the territory of New Mexico. He died Dec. 16, 1867, in Santa Fe, N. M.
Sluter, George Ludewig
clergyman, author, was born May 5, 1837, in Germany. He is a lutheran clergyman, pastor at Arlington, N. J., from 1881; and the author of History of Our Beloved Church; Life of Tiberius; and The Religion of Politics.
Smáil, Marion
soldier, educator, poet, was born July 8, 1846, in Whetstone, Ohio. He attended the Wesleyan university of Bloomington, Ill.; served as a soldier in the civil war; has been a successful teacher; has traveled extensively throughout the United States; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems. He is a manufacturer of medical articles in Indianapolis, Ind.
Small, Alvin Edmond
physician, educator, was born March 4, 1811, in Maine.
In 1856 he removed to Chicago and entered at once into an extensive practice, which he continued till his death. Soon after his arrival in that city he was called to the chair of theory and practice in Hahnemann college, which he held for life. He died Dec. 29, 1866, in Chicago.
Small, Elwood Eldenne
journalist, poet, was born July 22, 1869, in Marshall, Mich. He is a journalist of Valparaiso, Ind.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Rhymes with Reason and Without.
Small, Michael Peter
soldier, was born Aug. 9, 1831, in Harrisburg, Pa.
He became brevet colonel of United States volunteers, and brevet brigadier-general in 1865, for meritorious services in the subsistence department during the war.
Since 1884 he has been purchasing and depot commissary at Baltimore, Md.
Small, William B
congressman.
He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-third congress.
Smalley, David A
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born April 6, 1809, in Middlebury, Vt. In 1842 he was elected from Vermont a state senator, and declined a re-election. In 1853 he was appointed collector of customs for Vermont; was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention of 1857; and in that year was appointed United States district judge for the district of Vermont.
Smalley, Eugene Virgil
journalist, author, was born July 18, 1841, in Randolph, Ohio. He is a journalist of St.
Paul; and the author of History of the Northern Pacific Railroad; and History of the Republican Party.
Smalley, Frank
educator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 10, 1846, in Towanda, Pa. He has filled the chairs of geology, zoölogy and botany in the Syracuse university; and since 1881 has filled the chair of Latin language and literature in the same institution. He is the author of Latin Analysis; Latin Verse; Latin Etymology; Latin Hymns; and other works and translations.
Smalley, George Washburn
journalist, author, was born June 2, 1833, in Franklin, Mass. He is a noted journalist who was the London correspondent of the New York Tribune in 1867-95, and from 1895 American correspondent of the London Times. He is the author of London Letters, and Some Others; and Studies of Men.
Smalley, John
clergyman, author, was born June 4, 1734, in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at New Britain from 1758 till his death; and the author of National and Moral Inability; and Universal Salvation. He died June 1, 1820, in New Britain, Conn.
Smalls, Robert
naval officer, state senator, congressman, was born April 5, 1829, in Beaufort, S. C. In 1868 he was a member of the South Carolina house of representatives; and he also filled the unexpired term in the state senate for two years. In 1872 he was re-elected to that position; and was made brigadiergeneral and afterwards major-general of state troops. In 1874 he was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses as a republican.
Smart, Amanda J
poet, was born in 1830, in Thornton, N. H. She has written both prose and verse for the periodical press; and her poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Smart, Ephraim K
lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1813 in Prospect (now Searsport), Maine. In 1841 he was elected state senator from Maine; in 1842 was aid to the governor, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; and was re-elected to the senate the same year. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1847 to 1849, and from 1851 to 1853. From 1853 to 1858 he was collector of customs at Belfast, Maine. In 1854 he established the Maine Free Press, and was its editor for three years; and in 1858 was again elected to the legislature.
Smart, Mrs. Helen Hamilton
[GARDENER], author, was born in 1853 in Virginia. She is a Boston novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the furtherance of social reforms. She is the author of An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son, My Lord?; Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?; Pushed by Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; and The Fortunes of Margaret Weld.
Smart, James Henry
educator, author, college president, was born Jan. 30, 1841, in Center Harbor, N. H. For thirty years he has been a member of the state board of education of Fort Wayne, Ind.; was thrice elected state superintendent of public instruction; and became president of Purdue university in 1883. He is the author of The Indiana Schools and the Men who Work in Them; a History of Institutes in the United States; and a series of valuable Indiana state educational reports.
Smart, James S
soldier, journalist, congressman, was born June 14, 1842, in Baltimore, Md. In 1865 he took charge of the Washington County Post, published at Cambridge, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortythird congress as a republican.
Smead, Isaac David
manufacturer, inventor, was born July 31, 1849, in Coleraine, Mass. He received his education in the district schools, and in 1867 commenced the manufacture of heating and ventilating apparatus in Toledo, Ohio; has since continued in the business with great success; and is the president and superintendent of the Smead Furnace and Foundry company. He was a member of the board of managers of the Ohio penitentiary for four years, and was reappointed to that position for five years. He was commissioner of mechanics and machinery for the Ohio centennial exposition; and has served as colonel on the staff of Governor J. B. Foraker.
Smead, Wesley
physician, philanthropist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1800, in Westchester county, N. Y. He founded in 1850 the Widows' home in Cincinnati, to which he gave $37,000, and gave liberally to every public charity that came to his notice. Besides essays on banking, he published Guide to Wealth, or Pathway to Health, Peace and Competence. He died Jan. 6, 1871, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
SMEDES, MRS. SUSAN [DABNEY], author, was born Aug. 10, 1840, in Raymond, Miss. She is a Mississippi writer now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a Southern Planter is much valued as an accurate picture of southern life.
Smedley, Samuel Lightfoot
contractor, author, was born Dec. 29, 1832, in Edgmont, Pa. In 1856 he plotted a district of West Philadelphia into streets, and soon after published the first complete atlas of Philadelphia, which became the standard authority for many years.
Smelt, Dennis
Congressman. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1806 to 1811.
Smet, Peter John De
missionary, author, was born Dec. 31, 1801, in Belgium. He was the author of Oregon Missions and Travels; Western Missions and Missionaries; and the New Indian Sketches. He died Aug. 1, 1838, in Newton, Conn.
Smilie, John
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1741 in Ireland. He served in the legislature of Pennsylvania, his adopted state. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1793 to 1795, and again from 1799 to 1813.
In 1797 he was a presidential elector. He died Dec. 30, 1813, in Washington, D. C.