Smillie, George Henry – Smith, Augustus Ledyard
Smillie, George Henry
artist, was born Dec. 29, 1840, in New York city.
He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1864, and an academician in 1882, and is also a member of the Water-color society. Among his works in oil are A Lake in the Woods; A Florida Lagoon; A Goat Pasture; Merrimack River; On the Massachusetts Coast; Summer Morning on Long Island; and Light and Shadow along Shore.
Smillie, James
engraver, was born Nov. 23, 1807, in Edinburgh. Among his most noted works are copies of T. Cole's four pictures: The Voyage of Life; Dream of Arcadia; Harvesting; Mount Washington; and Rocky Mountains. He died Dec. 4, 1885, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Smillie, James David
artist, was born Jan. 16, 1833, in New York city. He was one of the founders of the American Water-color society, and for five years its president; also one of the founders of the New York Etching club, of which he subsequently became president.
Smillie, Nellie Sheldon Jac- Obs
artist, was born Sept. 14, 1854, in New York. Her works include Grandmother's Old Love Letters; When the Dew is on the Grass, in oil; Priscilla; Forgotten Strain; and Family Choir, in water-colors.
Smillie, William Cunning
engraver, was born Sept. 23, 1813, in England. He devoted himself to banknote engraving, and was connected with several firms which were ultimately merged in the American Bank Note company.
Smiser, Butler
journalist, author, poet, was born July 6, 1862, in Oldham county, Ky. He is editor and owner of The Indian Citizen of Atoka, I. T.; and has contributed both prose and verse to current literature.
Smith, a. Herr
lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1815, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was elected to the house of representatives of Pennsylvania in 1843 and 1844; and in 1845 was elected to the state senate. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortythird, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican. was
Smith, Abner
lawyer, jurist, born Aug. 4, 1843, in Orange, Mass. He is a judge of the circuit court of Cook county, Ill., and a man whose high attainments have placed him in the front rank of the representatives of the legal profession. His ancestors on both sides of the house figure prominently in the early history of this country. On graduating from Middlebury college in 1866 he became principal of Newton academy of Vermont, but resigned in 1868, when he came to Chicago to take up the study of his chosen profession. He was admitted to the bar in 1868 at Chicago, where he still resides, and enjoyed a large practice in the state and supreme courts till the fall of 1893, when he was nominated by the republican party for the circuit court judgeship and elected by an overwhelming majority. On the bench as well as at. the bar he has made a record that will long command the respect of the people of Illinois. He also possesses great literary ability.
Smith, Abner C
lawyer, journalist, jurist, state senator, was born Feb. 14, 1814, in Vermont. In 1839 he moved to Michigan; was judge of the county court; judge of probate; and a state senator from Macomb county in 1845-46. He was the editor and publisher of the Macomb County Gazette; and also of the Ancient Landmark. He died Sept. 20, 1880, in Litchfield, Minn.
Smith, Alan Penneman
physician, was born Feb. 3, 1840, in Baltimore, Md. He is connected with nearly all the hospitals of Baltimore as consulting physician or surgeon, and has performed the operation of lithotomy more than hundred times, successfully in every instance. one
Smith, Albert
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1793, in Hanover, Mass. He was sent to the general court of Massachusetts in 1820. From 1830 to 1838 he was marshal of the United States for Maine. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1839 to 1841; and in 1842 was appointed United States commissioner to settle the northeastern boundary, under the Ashburton treaty, which business was completed in 1847. He died May 29, 1867, in Boston, Mass.
Smith, Albert
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the New York assembly from Genesee county in 1842; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1847.
Smith, Alfred Baker
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 17, 1825, in Massena, N. Y. He received his education at the St. Lawrence academy and Union college of Schenectady, N. Y. During the civil war he was a major in the one hundred and fiftieth regiment New York volunteer infantry; was promoted to lieutenantcolonel and colonel of same; and brevetted brigadier-general by President Lincoln for gallant and meritorious services in Georgia and the Carolinas. He took part with his regiment in Gettysburg, and on every march and fight it was in; and commanded the regiment on its march to the sea. He has since become one of the leading lawyers of the east at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; has been its postmaster for eight years; and for thirty-eight years a member of the board of education.
Smith, Alcock C
lawyer, jurist, was born in Kentucky. He moved to Washington territory, from which he was appointed a justice of the United States court for the territory of Idaho.
Smith, Andrew J
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 2, 1818, in Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1875-76 he was attorney general of Michigan; in 1878 was appointed judge of the second circuit to fill a vacancy from Cassopolis; and was re-elected to the same office in 1881 for six years.
Smith, Andrew Jackson
soldier, was born April 28, 1815, in Bucks county, Pa. In 1838 he graduated from West Point; served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars; and attained the brevet of major-general in the United States army.
Smith, Andrew Robinson Gid- Dinge
physician, surgeon, state senator, was born in May, 1841, in Bridgton, Maine.
He entered military service as hospital steward; was promoted assistant surgeon; and has since been United States examining surgeon in Whitefield, Maine. He has represented his town in the state legislature; and his district in the state senate for two sessions.
Smith, Arthur
state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 15, 1785, in Isle of Wight county, Va. He served with credit at the head of a militia force at Norfolk in 1812; was a member of the privy council of Virginia, and subsequently a member of the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1825. He died March 30, 1853, in Virginia.
Smith, Arthur Donaldson
explorer, author, was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. He is an African explorer; and the author of Through Unknown African Countries.
Smith, Arthur E
poet, was born June 15, 1865, in Granville, N. Y. He is a writer of Belcher, N. Y.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Rural Legends and Lyrics.
Smith, Asa Dodge
clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 21, 1804, in Amherst, N. H. He was a presbyterian clergyman; and was president of Dartmouth college during 1863-77. He published several addresses and sermons.
He died Aug. 16, 1877, in Hanover, N. H.
Smith, Ashbel
physician, diplomat, author, was born Aug. 13, 1805, in Hartford, Conn. He was a Texas politician and physician; and the author of Account of the Geography of Texas; and Permanent Identity of the Human Race. He died Jan. 21, 1886, in Harris county, Texas.
Smith, Ashley Auburn
clergyman, author, poet, was born May 28, 1871, in Auburn, Maine. He graduated from Tufts college; and now fills a pastorate in Gloucester, Mass. He is the author of a volume entitled Noble Thoughts for Noble Living.
Smith, Augustus Ledyard
business man, legislator, was born April 5, 1833, in Middletown, Conn. He graduated from the university of Middletown, and subsequently took a position as tutor in the university of Wisconsin at Madison. In 1856 he became connected with the office of school lands in Wisconsin, and with the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement company, and became its sec- In 1861 he accepted retary and treasurer. the professorship in the United States Naval academy of Annapolis, and was subsequently assigned to duty on the steam frigate Constitution. After the war he resumed his duties with the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement company, which was subsequently merged into the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal company; and was continuously with that company until 1872. In 1870 Mr. Smith organized the First National bank of Appleton, and was its president for more than twenty years.
In 1881 he was the leading spirit of the Appleton Edison Light company; and in 1894 was elected vice-president of the National Association of the Edison Illuminating companies. In 1866-67 he served as state senator in the Wisconsin legislature; and in 1870 was elected mayor of Appleton.
Among the important measures in which he took a leading part was the reorganization of the State university; and while a member of the senate Governor Fairchild appointed him regent, which position he held for six successive years. In 1884 he received the nomination to congress; and was president of the Wisconsin board of World's Fair managers in 1891.