Smith, Marcus A – Smith, Reuben S
Smith, Marcus A
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1852, near Cynthiana, Ky. He moved to Arizona in 1881, and the following year was elected prosecuting attorney of his district. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty-third congresses as a democrat; refused to run for the fifty-fourth congress; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Smith, Mrs. Margaret Bayard
author, was born in 1778 in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a social leader in Washington; and the author of A Winter in Washington, in two volumes; and What Is Gentility? She died in 1844 in Washington, D. C.
Smith, Martin Luther
soldier, was born in 1819 in New York city. He entered the confederate service, became a brigadier-general, commanded a brigade in defence of New Orleans, was at the head of the engineer corps of the army, and planned and constructed the defences of Vicksburg, where he was taken pris- He subsequently attained the rank oner. of major-general. After the war he became chief engineer of the Selma, Rome and Dayton railroad. He died July 29, 1866, in Rome, Ga.
Smith, Martin Snyder
public official, railroad president, was born Nov. 12, 1834, in Lima, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of Pontiac, Mich. He has been vice-president and treasurer of the Alger-Smith company and the Manistique Lumbering company; president of the Manistique Railway company; president of the American Exchange National bank; president of the Michigan Condensed Milk company; and in 1872-88 was police commissioner.
Smith, Mary
artist, was born in 1842 in Philadelphia, Pa. She became remarkable for her paintings of little chickens and small animals of the woods. She left a volume of one hundred finely drawn and colored insects of eastern Pennsylvania. She also gave to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts a perpetual gift for an animal prize to ladies for the best painting, which has done much good during the past twenty years. She died in 1878.
Smith, Mrs. Mary Louise Riley
author, poet, was born May 27, 1842, in Brighton, N. Y. She is a popular poet of New York city; and the author of Sometime, and Other Poems; The Inn of Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other Verses; and Cradle and Armchair.
Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence
author, was born July 30, 1840, in Attica, N. Y. She is a Cincinnati writer for young people; and the author of The Browns; Child Life on a Farm; Jolly Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack; More Good Times at Hackmatack; and Miss Ellis's Mission.
Smith, Mrs. Mary Stuart
author, was born in 1834 in Pennsylvania. She has made many translations from the German and French, and has also published Heirs of the Kingdom; and Virginia Cookery Book.
Smith, Matthew Hale
clergyman, author, was born in 1816 in Portland, Maine. He was a clergyman of the universalist and subsequently of the presbyterian and other faiths, and was also a lawyer and brilliant journalist, known as Burleigh. He was the author of Universalism Examined, Renounced, and Exposed; Universalism Not of God; Sabbath Evenings; Mount Calvary; Sunshine and Shadow in New York; Bulls and Bears of Wall Street, which include his chief works.
He died Nov. 7, 1879, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Smith, Melancthon
congressman, was born in 1724 in Jamaica, N. Y. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress from 1785 to 1788. He died July 29, 1798, in New York city.
Smith, Melancthon
naval officer, was born May 24, 1810, in New York city.
In 1826 he entered the navy as a midshipman, passed through all the grades; and was commissioned rear-admiral in 1870. He was subsequently appointed governor of the naval asylum at Philadelphia,
Smith, Meriwether
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1730 in Essex county, Va. He was long a member of the house of burgesses; was a member of all the Virginia conventions in 1775 and 1776; and was a member of the federal convention of Virginia. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1782. He died Jan. 25, 1790, in Virginia.
Smith, Milo Roberts
lawyer, legislator, was born July 1, 1830, in Logansport, Ind. He is a prominent lawyer of Rochester, Ind.; was county recorder for two terms of Fulton county; and served with distinction as a state senator in the Indiana legislature.
Smith, Minna Caroline
journalist, author, was born in 1860 in California.
She is a journalist of Boston; and the author of The Boys of Cary Farm, a juvenile tale; and Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle, from the French of Nodier.
Smith, Milton H
railroad president, was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y.
Since 1891 he has been president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
Smith, Moses
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 16, 1830, in Hebron, Conn.
He first engaged in educational work as instructor in the Westfield academy; and in 1855 entered Andover Theological seminary, from which institution he graduated in 1859.
He was ordained the same year and became pastor of the congregational church of Plainville, Conn. During the he served in war company A, eighth regiment Connecticut volunteer infantry, and was unanimously elected chaplain of the regiment. He has filled pastorates in Chicago, Jackson and Detroit, Mich.; and since 1888 has been pastor of the congregational church at Glencoe, Ill. He is the author of Questions of the Ages, which discusses certain of the deep things of the gospel.
Smith, Nathan
physician, author, was born Sept. 13, 1762, in Rehoboth, Mass. He was a physician who was a medical professor in Dartmouth college in 1798-1813. He was the author of Practical Essays on Typhus Fever; and Medical and Surgical Memoirs. He died July 26, 1828, in New Haven, Conn.
Smith, Nathan
lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 8, 1769, in Woodbury, Conn. He was a member of the convention that framed the state constitution; and was for many years state's attorney for the county of New Haven.
He frequently served in the state legislature; and was for several years United States attorney for the district of Connecticut. He was a delegate to the Hartford convention in 1814; and represented his native state in the senate of the United States from 1833 to 1835. He died Dec. 6, 1835, in Washington, D. C.
Smith, Nathan Ryno
surgeon, au-- thor, was born May 21, 1797, in Concord, N. H. He was a professor of surgery in the university of Maryland in 1840-70; and the author of Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries; and Legends of the South.
He died July 3, 1877, in Baltimore, Md.
Smith, Nathaniel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1762, in Woodbury, Conn. He was for many years. a member of the state legislature, serving in both houses. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1795 to 1799; and in 1806 was elected judge of the supreme court of the state, and held the office until 1819. He died March 9, 1822, in Woodbury, Conn.
Smith, Oliver
philanthropist, was. born in January, 1766, in Hatfield, Mass.
He was a magistrate for forty years; twice a representative to the state legislature; and in 1820 was a member of the state constitutional convention. He acquired large wealth by stock-raising; which he bequeathed to establish the Smith charities, a unique system of benevolence, now holding one million dollars, the interest... of which is extended in marriage portions to poor and worthy young couples. He died Dec. 22, 1845, in Hatfield, Mass.
Smith, Oliver Hampton
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, author, was born Oct. 23, 1794, near Trenton, N. J. In 1824 he was prosecuting attorney for the third district of Indiana; and was elected to the state legislature in 1822. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1827 to 1829; and was a senator in congress from 1837 to 1848. He was the author of a work giving his hecollections of Congressional.
Life; and Early Indian Trials. He died March 19, 1859, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Smith, Orland
railroad president, was born May 2, 1825, in Lewiston, Maine.
Since 1884 he has been president of the Columbus and Midland railroad at Baltimore, Md.
Smith, Otis David
educator, lecturer, was born June 27, 1831, in New Haven, Vt. For fifty years he has been identified with the educational interests of Alabama and the south; and has lectured before schools, colleges, and literary institutions.
Smith, Perry
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born May 12, 1783, in Woodbury, Conn. He settled in New Milford in 1807; was a state representative for four years; and was a judge of probate for two years. He was a senator in congress from 1837 to 1843. He died June 8, 1852, in Milford, Conn.
Smith, Persifer Frazer
lawyer, author, was born in 1808 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Forms of Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts; and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, in thirty-two volumes. He died May 17, 1882, in Westchester, Pa.
Smith, Reuben S
educator, writer, lawyer, politician, was born April 1, 1854, in Marianna, Fla. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of his native city, and graduated from the Howard university, from which institution he received the degree of LL. B.
He taught school for awhile, and for several years was the Washington correspondent of the New York Globe. He has filled numerous offices of trust in the United States government; was a delegate to the national republican convention in 1880; and is now one of the leading lawyers of Washington, D. C., practices in all the courts of the District of Columbia and before the government departments. -