Smith, Augustus William – Smith, Chester G
Smith, Augustus William
educator, author, was born May 12, 1802, in Newport, R. I. He was an educator who was professor of mathematics at Wesleyan university in 1831-51; and president of that institution from 1851. He was the author of Elementary Treatise on Mechanics. He died March 26, 1866, in Annapolis, Md.
Smith, Azariah Lawrence
educator, clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 18, 1837, in Tompkins county, N. Y. For thirty years he was engaged in educational work as a teacher in the public schools.
He has filled pastorates in several churches in Missouri, and for many years was pastor of the First Baptist church of Mattock, Iowa. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and some of his poems have been given a place in standard works.
Smith, Ballard
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1815 to 1821.
Smith, Benjamin
state legislator, governor, was born in 1750 in Brunswick county, N. C. He was a member of the North Carolina state legislature in 1792; was a general of militia; and was governor of the state from 1810 to 1811. His life was one of many difficulties; was engaged in many duels; but is kindly remembered because of his donation of twenty thousand acres of land to the State university in 1789. He died Feb. 10, 1829, in Smithville, N. C.
Smith, Benjamin Bosworth
bishop, was born June 13, 1794, in Bristol, R.
I. In 1832 he became a protestant episcopal bishop of the diocese of Kentucky. His earliest work in the ministry was in Marblehead for two years, after which he became rector of St. George's church, Accomack county, Va., and two years later rector of Zion church, Charlestown, with charge of the church in Shepherdstown.
He died May 31, 1884, in New York city.
Smith, Benjamin Wilson
educator, clergyman, state legislator, was born Jan. 19, 1830, in Harrison county, Va. He is the senior member of a school supply firm of La Fayette, Ind.; and has served as a member of the Indiana state legislature for three terms.
Smith, Bernard
public official, congressman, was born in 1776 in Morristown, N. J. He was sent as a special bearer of dispatches to Europe; and was subsequently collector and postmaster at New Brunswick. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1819 to 1821; and during the latter year was appointed register of the land office in Arkansas, which office he held until his death. He died July 16, 1835, in Little Rock, Ark.
Smith, Boardman H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in Whitingham, Vt. He settled in New York; was appointed judge of the Chemung county courts in 1859, and elected to the same office in that year. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.
Smith, Buckingham
lawyer, diplomat, antiquarian, author, was born Oct. 31, 1810, in Cumberland Island, Ga. He was a Spanish-American scholar and antiquary of note; twice secretary of the United States legation at Mexico; and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many publications are Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of the Pima, or Nevome; and Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida. He died Jan. 5, 1871, in New York city.
Smith, Caleb Blood
congressman, cabinet officer, was born April 16, 1808, in Boston, Mass. In 1832 he established and edited a whig journal called the Indiana Sentinel. In 1833 he was a member of the legislature; and also in 1834-36. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1843 to 1849; and was a presidential elector in 1840 and 1856. After leaving congress in 1849 he was appointed one of the members of the board for investigating the claims of American citizens against Mexico; and subsequently practiced his profession in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed secretary of the interior department. He was a member of the peace congress held in Washington in 1861; and in 1862 was appointed judge of the United States district court for the district of Indiana. He died Jan. 8, 1864, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Smith, Carl
journalist, poet. He was a successful journalist and on the staff of the Chicago Record. He was the author of a volume of poems entitled Where the Sun Goes Down. He was drowned in September, 1898.
Smith, Carroll Earll
journalist, state legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1832, in Syracuse, N. Y. He was associate editor on the staff of the Syracuse Chronicle. In 1888 he was a member of the New York legislature; and in 1889-93 was postmaster of Syracuse, N. Y.
Smith, Charles
bookseller, was born in 1768 in New York. He was a bookseller in New York city; translated plays for the stage from the German of Kotzebue and Schiller; and edited the Monthly Military Repository in 1796-97. He also published a Political Pocket Almanac in 1797. He died in 1808 in New York city.
Smith, Charles
lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 4, 1765, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became president judge in 1819 of the judicial district composed of the counties of Cumberland, Franklin and Adams; and in 1820 of the newly formed district court of Lancaster city and county. His later life was spent in Philadelphia. He was appointed by the legislature in 1810 to revise the laws of the state, and to frame a compilation of them, which he published with a Treatise on the Land Laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes.
He died March 18, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Smith, Charles Adam
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 25, 1809, in New York city. He was a lutheran clergyman of Rhinebeck, N. Y., and elsewhere. He was the author of The Catechumen's Guide; Men of the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; Inlets and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches; and Popular Exposition of the Gospels. He died Feb. 15, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Smith, Charles Brooks
soldier, congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1844, in Wood county, W. Va. He enlisted in the union army at the age of nineteen years, and was mustered out in 1865. He was twice elected mayor of the city of Parkersburg; and in 1880 was elected sheriff and treasurer of the county of Wood, and served a term of four years; was delegate at large to the national republican convention at Chicago in 1888; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Smith, Charles Emory
journalist, was born Feb. 18, 1842, in Mansfield, Conn.
He became editor of the Albany Express in 1865, and of the Albany Journal in 1870, and since 1880 has conducted the Philadelphia Press. He was president of the New York State Press association in 1874, and delivered the annual address at its meeting. He was a regent of the university of the state of New York in 1879- 80; and a delegate to the national republican conventions in 1876 and in 1888.
Smith, Charles Ferguson
soldier, was born April 24, 1807, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served at the military academy from 1829 till 1842 as assistant instructor of infantry tactics, adjutant, and as commandant of cadets and instructor of infantry tactics. He was with the army of General Zachary Taylor in the military occupation of Texas in 1845-46, and was placed in command of four companies of artillery, acting as infantry, which throughout the war that followed was famous as Smith's light battalion.
He died April 25, 1862, in Savannah, Tenn.
Smith, Charles Forster
educator, author, was born June 30, 1852, in Abbeville county, S. C. He graduated from the Wafford college, Harvard university, and Leipsic university. He has filled the chair of Greek in various institutions, and now fills that chair in the university of Wisconsin. He is the author of several books, and a number of philological and literary articles.
Smith, Charles Henry
(Bill Arp), lawyer, journalist, author, was born June 15, 1826, in Lawrenceville, Ga. He is a lawyer and journalist of Rome, Ga., and well-known as a humorous contributor to The Atlanta Constitution. He is the author of Bill Arp's Letters; Bill Arp's Scrap Book; The Farm and the Fireside; A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War; and Georgia as a Colony and State in 1733-1893.
Smith, Charles Henry
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 1, 1827, in Hollis, Maine. He has been successively lawyer, soldier, state senator, and army officer, and is now on the retired list of the United States army in Washington, D. C.
Smith, Charles P
merchant, banker, state legislator, was born March 4, 1847, in Canada. He was educated in the public schools of Burlington; is president of the Burlington Savings bank; and in 1894 was elected a member of the Vermont house of representatives.
Smith, Charles Perrin
genealogist, was born Jan. 5, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. On attaining his majority he became proprietor and editor of The National Standard of Salem, N. J., and conducted it for eleven years. He served in the legislature of 1852, and filled numerous public positions. He was the author of a genealogy. He died Jan. 27, 1883, in Trenton, N. J.
Smith, Charles Shaler
civil engineer, was born Jan. 26, 1836, in Pittsburg, Pa. He constructed the confederate states powder works, one of the largest that had then been built. In 1866 he organized the engineering firm which subsequently became the Baltimore Bridge company, of which he was president and chief engineer. He died Dec. 19, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.
Smith, Chester G
lawyer, orator, was born Dec. 31, 1870, in Frankfort, Mich. He received a thorough education in the graded and normal schools; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Utica, N. Y. He has a successful practice in Buffalo, N. Y.