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Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle
thor of Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holscientist, author, was born Feb. 26, 1836, in Marcellus, N. Y. She was an ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. She died June 9, 1886, in Jersey City, N. J.
Smith, Ethan
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1762, in Belchertown, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman and city missionary of Boston in 1832-49. He was the author of A View of the Trinity; and A View of the Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the ten tribes of Israel. He died Aug. 29, 1849, in Pompey, N. Y.
Smith, Eugene Allen
educator, geologist, was born Oct. 27, 1841, in Alabama. He has attained eminence as a noted geologist; and is connected with the university of Alabama.
Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M
author, was born in 1852 in Vermont. She is a writer of Dubuque, Iowa, and the author of Winsome but Wicked; The Parson's Sin; and Our Money-Makers, a poultry book.
Smith, Mrs. Eva Munson
composer, poet, author, was born July 12, 1843, in Monkton, Vt. She is the author of Woman in Sacred Song, a representative work of what woman has done in hymnology. She is the author of large number of temperance songs and other works, which have become very popular. Her poems appear in Poets of America and other standard a works. Her best known productions are, Woodland Warblings; American Rifle Team March; and I Will Not Leave You Comfortless.
Smith, Florence
poet, was born in 1845 in New York city. She was a poet of New York city; and published Piero's Painting, and Other Poems. She died in 1871 in New York city.
Smith, Francis Gurney
physician, author, was born March 8, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. During the civil war he was physician in charge of a military hospital. He founded and established the first laboratory in which physiology was taught experimentally and by demonstration in the university of Pennsylvania, was the first president of the Philadelphia Obstetrical society, and vice-president of the American Medical association in 1870. For nine years he was an editor of the Philadelphia Medical Examiner. He contributed frequently to medical literature; translated and edited Barth and Roger's Manual of Auscultation and Percussion; edited Daniel Drake's Systematic Treatise; and was the author of Domestic Medicine, Surgery, and Materia Medica. He died April 6, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Smith, Francis Henney
soldier, educator, author, was born Oct. 18, 1812, in Norfolk, Va. He was a confederate officer who was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney college in 1837-39, and superintendent of the Virginia Military institute in 1839-61, and 1865-90. He was the author of Best Methods of Conducting Common Schools; College Reform; and a series of algebras. He died March 21, 1890, in Lexington, Va.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson
artist, civil engineer, author, was born Oct. 23, 1838, in Baltimore, Md. He is the auland and Italy; Old Lines in New Black and White; A White Umbrella in Mexico; Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; A Day at Laguerre's, and Other Days; American Illustrators; Venice of To-Day; A Gentleman Vagabond, and Some Others; and Tom Grogan.
Smith, Francis Osmond Jon
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1806, in Brentwood, N. H. He was elected to the assembly of Maine in 1831; was president of the state senate in 1833, and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1833 to 1839.
He was a brilliant orator and parliamentarian; and while in congress served on a number of important committees. He died Oct. 14, 1876, in Deering, Maine.
Smith, Frank B
lawyer, jurist, was born March 6, 1861, near Leavenworth, Kan. He held the office of state's attorney for six years, and that of county judge for two years. He is now circuit judge of the fourth judicial circuit of South Dakota.
Smith, Frank H
physician, state legislator, was born in 1855 in Jacksonville, Pa. He has been mayor of Goodland, Kan., where he is a successful physician. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature.
Smith, Frank Hill
artist, was born Oct. 15, 1842, in Boston, Mass. His work in oil includes portraits, figure-pieces and landscapes. Some of his Venetian pictures belong to the Somerset club, Boston. He has decorated the Windsor hotel and the opera-house at Holyoke, Mass., and numerous public and private buildings in Boston, Cambridge and other cities.
Smith, Frank L
portrait painter, was born Dec. 21, 1860, in Ripon, Wis.
Early in life he had a penchant for art; studied under the best masters, and has attained a national reputation as an eminent portrait painter.
Smith, Frank Sullivan
lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1851, in Short Tract, N. Y. He received a thorough education; attended Angelica academy; and in 1872 graduated from Yale college. He has attained success as a lawyer, and is one of the foremost in his profession, with offices in New York city and Angelica. He has had much important and successful litigation, notably in relation to Eastern and Northern railroad of Alabama; Schuyler Electric company of Allegheny; and the Kinzua Railroad company. He has been supervisor of Allegheny county, was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1884, has been school commissioner, and was secretary of the republican state committee during 1887-91. He was general counsel of the Sciota Valley and N. E. railroad. He is president of the Allegheny Central Railroad company, and vice-president and counsel of the C., N. Y. and W.; and general counsel of the P. S. and L. E.; and the Michigan Gas company.
Smith, Genie M
journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 17, 1852, in Vermont.
She is the author of three novels, one book of poems, and numerous serials, short stories, sketches and other articles.
She has been the editor of the Minnesota Housekeeper, Iowa Mid-Continent, and various other publications.
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Smith, George
congressman. was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1813.
Smith, George
lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born Feb. 12, 1804, in Delaware county, Pa. He served in the state senate in 1832-36. He was an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Delaware county from the latter date till 1857, and was re-elected in 1861 for a term of five years. He was chosen the first superintendent of the Delaware county common schools in 1854, and for the subsequent twenty-five years was president of the school board of Upper Darby school district. He also devoted much attention to scientific pursuits, especially to geology. He was a founder of the Delaware county institute of science, and its president from 1833 until his death, presenting it with his valuable herbarium about 1875. He published several essays and A History of Delaware County, Pa., from the Discovery of the Territory Included Within Its Limits to the Present Time. He died March 10, 1882, in Upper Darby, Pa.
Smith, George Carson
railroad president, was born March 4, 1855, in Granville, Wash. Since 1894 he has been president of the Atlanta and West Point railroad, and also of the Western railway of Alabama.
Smith, George Handy
United States senator, was born July 21, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1871 he was chosen a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature, and was twice re-elected. In 1875 he was elected a state senator, and in 1877 a United States senator. In 1885 and again in 1887 he was chosen president pro tem. of the senate.
Smith, George L
soldier, merchant, journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1840, in Hillsborough county, N. H. He served in the army; settled in Louisiana at the close of the civil war and engaged in mercantile business, and was elected a member of the assembly in 1870 and 1872. He was proprietor of the Shreveport Southwestern Telegram; and was president of a savings bank and trust company. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-third congress to fill a vacancy.
Smith, George W
physician, merchant, banker, was born Dec. 10, 1846, in Hillsdale county, Mich. In 1867 he moved to Owosso, Mich., engaged in the drug business, and there studied medicine. He practiced that profession for a while, and then engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business. In 1878 he moved to Geneva, Neb., and a year later organized the Geneva Exchange bank, of which he was president. In 1879 the bank's name was changed to the First National bank of Geneva, of which he is still president. He has traveled extensively in Europe, and on his return. was elected mayor of his city in 1890. He has also organized several other banks in Nebraska, and has made generous contributions to churches and educational institutions.
Smith, George W
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1846, in Putnam county, Ohio. In 1870 he was admitted to the practice of law by the supreme court of Illinois, since which time he has resided in Murphysboro. In 1880 he was the republican elector for his congressional district, and cast the vote of the district for Garfield and Arthur. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third; fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.