Smith, John Montgomery – Smith, Lyman Cornelius
Smith, John Montgomery
educator, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 26, 1834, in Bedford Springs, Pa. In 1838 he moved with his parents to Wisconsin, settling in Mineral Point. He there received his education, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1862. In 1864 he was superintendent of schools, district attorney of Iowa county in 1868-70; mayor of Mineral Point in 1879, 1880 and 1885.
He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1880 and 1888; was city attorney in 1891-92; a member of the county board in 1892; presidential elector in the same year, and was also elected a member of the assembly of the Wisconsin state legislature in 1892.
Smith, John Q
farmer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1824, in Warren county, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio state senate in 1860 and 1872; and was a member of the state house of representatives in 1862 and 1863. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-third congress as a republican; in 1875 was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs.
Smith, John Speed
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 31, 1792, in Jessamine county, Ky. He served as a soldier under General Harrison; was at the battle of Tippecanoe; and was aidéde-camp to the same general at the battle of the Thames in 1813. In 1819 he was elected to the legislature of Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1821 to 1823; and in 1827 was again elected to the state legislature, and was made speaker of the house. He subsequently served several terms both in the house and senate, and was appointed United States attorney for the district of Kentucky. He was superintendent of public works in Kentucky for several years. He died June 6, 1854, in Madison county, Ky.
Smith, John Stilman
clergyman, was born Feb. 9, 1832, in Charlotte, Maine. He is a successful clergyman of the Christian church, and in 1881 became assistant to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale in Boston, Mass. He was one of the incorporators of the Society of Ten Times One, and was made its treasurer.
Smith, John T
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845.
Smith, John Talbot
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 1855, in Saratoga, N. Y. He is a Roman catholic clergyman in the diocese of Ogdensburg, and the author of History of Ogdensburg Diocese; A Woman of Culture, a novel; Solitary Island, a novel; Prairie Boy, a juvenile tale; and Our Seminaries, an essay on Clerical Training.
Smith, Jonathan Bayard
congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1742, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1777 to 1778; and was a signer of the articles of confederation. He died June 16, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Smith, Joseph
naval officer, was born March 30, 1790, in Boston, Mass. He served in the civil war; and in 1862 attained the rank of rear-admiral. He died Jan. 17, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
Smith, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born July 15, 1796, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in western Pennsylvania; and the author of History of Jefferson College; and Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism.
He died Dec. 4, 1868, in Greensburg, Pa.
Smith, Joseph
founder of the mormon sect, was born Dec. 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vt. After failing to start a colony of his sect in Ohio and Missouri, he at last settled in Nauvoo, Ill. But this failed as all others had, on account of the opposition of the people to the peculiar doctrines of the mormons. Joseph and his brother being confined in jail, were surrounded by a mob and both killed June 27, 1844, in Carthage, Ill.
Smith, Joseph
founder of a religious sect, was born Nov. 6, 1832, in Kirkland, Ohio. After the death of his father in 1844 he remained in Nauvoo with his mother, who would not acknowledge the authority of Brigham Young. He went abroad and preached frequently for about fifteen years, and then removed to Lamoni, Iowa, the acknowledged head of the reorganized church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a strong opponent to the doctrine and practices of the polygamists of Utah.
Smith, Joseph Edward Adams
-Godfrey Greylock-author, was born in 1822.
He was a writer of Pittsfield, Mass., and the author of Taghconic, the Romance and Beauty of the Hills; and A History of Paper.
Smith, Joseph Fielding
state legislator, was born Nov. 13, 1838, in Far West, Mo. In 1882 he was a member and president of the council of the Utah legislature, and the same year was elected president of the Utah constitutional convention. In 1889 he was elected second counselor in the presidency of the mormon church of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Smith, Joseph Lee
lawyer, jurist, was born May 28, 1776, in New Britain, Conn. Having become a resident of Florida, he was appointed United States judge for that territory, serving as such until 1832. He died May 27, 1846, in St.
Augustine, Fla.
Smith, Joseph Mather
physician, author, was born March 14, 1789, in New Rochelle, N. Y. He was a physician of New York city, and the author of Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics; and Illustrations of Medical Phenomena in Public Life. He died April 22, 1866, in New York city.
Smith, Joseph Rowe
soldier, was born Sept. 8, 1802, in Stillwater, N. Y.
During the Mexican war he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel. He became chief mustering officer of Michigan in 1862, military commissary of musters in 1863, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral, United States army, for long and honorable service. He died Sept. 3, 1868, in Monroe, Mich.-
Smith, Joseph S
lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born June 20, 1824, in Fayette county, Pa. He moved to Oregon, and then to Washington territory; was made prosecuting attorney; and was elected to the territorial legislature, and made speaker in 1857. He was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-first congress.
Smith, Josiah
congressman, was born in 1745 in Pembroke, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1803. He died in March, 1803, of smallpox.
Smith, Judson
clergyman, educator, author, was born June 28, 1837, in Middlefield, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman and educator; secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1884; and the author of Lectures in Church History; and Lectures on Modern History.
Smith, Justin Almerin
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1819, in Ticonderoga, N. Y. He was a baptist clergyman of Chicago, editor of The Standard from 1853; and the author of The Martyr of Vilvorde; Sinclair Thompson, the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the Word; Modern Church History; and Patmos. He died in 1896.
Smith, Lewis W
educator, poet, was born Nov. 22, 1866, in Malta, Ill. After spending a term in Beloit college, he later attended the college of Fairfield, Neb., from which institution he graduated in 1889. He has attained success as an educator in Nebraska; and his poems have appeared in current literature.
Smith, Lloyd Pearsall
librarian, author, was born Feb. 6, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became hereditary assistant and treasurer in the Philadelphia and Loganian library, and in 1851 succeeded his father as librarian. He edited Lippincott's Magazine in 1868-70; and was the author of Report to the Contributors of the Pennsylvania Relief Association for East Tennessee of a Commission of the Executive Committee Sent to Examine that Region; Remarks on the Existing Materials for Forming a Just Estimate of Napoleon I; Remarks on the Apology for Imperial Usurpation Contained in Napoleon's Life of Cæsar; Address Delivered at Haverford College Before the Alumni; and Symbolism and Science. He died July 2, 1886, in Germantown, Pa.
Smith, Lucas F
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 3, 1844, in Wells county, Ind. He graduated from the university of Michigan, and soon attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of the west. During the civil war he served as a private in the union army; and was captain of a company of rangers in the Indian war of 1875. He has served as county attorney of Fannin county, Texas; was district attorney of the eleventh judicial district of Texas, and served with distinction as United States district attorney of New Mexico. He is now superior judge of Santa Cruz county, Cal.
Smith, Lucius Edwin
educator, author, was born Jan. 29, 1822, in Williamstown, Mass. From 1868 till 1875 he was literary editor of the New York Examiner. In 1877 he became editor of the Watchman, Boston, of which journal since 1881 he has remained associate editor.
Besides contributing numerous articles to periodicals he has edited Heroes and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise.
Smith, Mrs. Lura Eugenie
journalist, author, was born in 1864 in New York. She is a journalist of Little Rock; and the author of On the Track and Off the Train.
Smith, Lyman Cornelius
manufacturer, inventor, was born March 31, 1850, in Torrington, Conn. He developed a new typewriter, to which he gave the now well-known name of The Smith Premier. In 1893 his business was incorporated under the name of The Smith Premier Typewriter Co., Mr. Smith being the president; and this industry now gives employment to five hundred skilled mechanics in the factory and to two hundred people in connection with the sales department in the various branch offices in this country and in Europe.