Smith, Richard – Smith, Samuel Finley
Smith, Richard
congressman, was born March 22, 1735, in Burlington, N. J.
He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776.
He died in 1803 near Natchez, Miss., while on a journey through the southern states.
Smith, Richard Penn
lawyer, author, was born March 13, 1799, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer and dramatist of Philadelphia, fifteen of whose plays were placed on the stage, and were once popular, Caius Marius being one of the best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a novel; The Actress of Padua, and Other Tales; and Lives of Crockett and Martin Van Buren. His complete works in four volumes were issued in 1888. He died Aug. 12, 1854, in Falls of Schuylkill, Pa.
Smith, Richard Somers
soldier, educator, author, was born Oct. 30, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a soldier and educator; president of Girard college in 1863-68; and for the last seven years of his life in charge of the department of drawing at the United States Naval academy. He was the author of Manual of Topographical Drawing; and Manual of Linear Perspective. He died Jan. 23, 1877, in Annapolis, Md.
Smith, Richmond Mayo
educator, author, was born in 1854 in Ohio. He is a professor of political economy at Columbia college from 1883; and the author of Statistics and Economics; Emigration and Immigration; and Statistics and Sociology.
Smith, Robert
clergyman, educator, was born in 1723 in Ireland. From 1751 till his death was pastor of the presbyterian church at Pequea, Pa., a part of the time supplying the church at Leacock.
Shortly after his settlement in Pequea he founded a classical and theological seminary, which enjoyed a high reputation. He died April 15, 1793, in Rockville, Pa.
Smith, Robert
protestant episcopal bishop, was born June 25, 1732, in England. In 1783 he opened an academy, which was chartered in 1786 as the South Carolina college. Of this institution he was president until 1798. He was unanimously elected in 1795 to be the first bishop of the protestant episcopal church in South Carolina. He died Oct. 28, 1801, in Charleston, S. C.
Smith, Robert
soldier, state legislator, cabinet officer, was born in November, 1757, in Lancaster, Pa. He served as a volunteer in the revolutionary war, and was present at the battle of Brandywine.
He served as a member of the Maryland legislature; was secretary of the navy from 1802 to 1805; and was secretary of the navy under President Madison. He died Nov. 26, 1842, in Baltimore, Md.
Smith, Robert
manufacturer, congressman, was born June 12, 1802, in Petersborough, N. H. He removed to Illinois in 1832; served in the Illinois legislature from 1836 to 1840; and was enrolling and engrossing clerk of the house of representatives of Illinois from 1840 to 1843. He was then elected to congress, and served until 1849; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress. He died in December, 1867, in Alton, Ill.
Smith, Robert A
lawyer, banker, legislator, was born June 13, 1827, in Booneville, Ind. He received a thorough education and attended the Indiana university of Bloomington. He has lead a life of an active business man, banker, lawyer, and statesman. He was elected auditor of Warren county, Ind.; and in 1853 moved to St. Paul, Minn. He practiced law, and was appointed secretary to Governor Gorman, and acted as territorial librarian up to 1856; and for the twelve succeeding years was treasurer of Ramsey county. In 1868 he was elected alderman of St. Paul, and for three years was president of the common council. He served two years in the legislature; then became mayor of St. Paul, and was elected a state senator-serving eight years as mayor and four years as state senator. He has been postmaster of St. Paul, and for nearly fifty years has been engaged in official life.
Smith, Robert Burns
lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Dec. 29, 1854, in Hickman county, Ky. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and at the academy of Milburn, Ky. For four years he was engaged in educational work; and studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1877. In 1884 he was a member of the constitutional convention of Montana; United States district attorney for Montana during 1885- 89; was corporation counsel for the city of Helena in 1891; and in 1894 was a candidate for congress on the people's party ticket. In 1897 he was elected to fill the high office of governor of Montana for four years. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the west; and is regarded as the best political debater in the state of Montana.
Smith, Robert Davis
soldier, educator, college president, was born Oct. 9, 1842, in Columbia, Tenn. His father, Rev.
Franklin G. Smith, founded the Columbian Athenæum, of which Robert, his eldest son, became president. He also served four years in the confederate army as captain.
Smith, Robert Frederick
soldier, was born Aug. 2, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He saw much active service, and commanded a brigade in Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea and thence to Washington. Before the regiment was mustered out of service in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general. He died April 23, 1893, in Hamilton, Ill.
Smith, Roswell
publisher, was born March 30, 1829, in Lebanon, Conn. He moved in 1870 to New York city, where, in connection with Dr. Josiah G. Holland and Charles Scribner, he established Scribner's Monthly, now the Century Magazine. In 1873 he began the publication of St. Nicholas, a magazine for children. The first organization was under the firm name of Scribner and Co., which subsequently became the Century company, with Mr. Smith as president.
Smith, Russell
artist, was born April 26, 1812, in Glasgow, Scotland. When seven years of age he came to Pennsylvania, and in 1835 settled in Philadelphia, and has become a distinguished scene and landscape painter. His Chocorua Peak, and Cave at Chelton Hills were exhibited in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition.
Smith, Sadie Adams
author, was born Aug. 23, 1845, in Lancaster, N. H.
She is the historian general of the Daugh ters of the Revolution; secretary general and historian of United States Daughters of 1812; and the first treasurer of the National Society of New England Women, In 1865 she married to Captain Le Roy Sunderland Smith. She excels as a writer, and has contributed extensively to periodical literature. was
Smith, Samuel
financier, author, was born in 1720 in Burlington, N. J. He was a colonial treasurer of the province of West Jersey; and published a History of Nova Cæsarea, or New Jersey, from Its Settlement to 1721. He died in 1776, in Burlington, N. J.
Smith, Samuel
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1805 to 1809.
Smith, Samuel
soldier, merchant, congressman, United States senator, was born July 27, 1752, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a distinguished merchant of Baltimore, of which city he was mayor. He rose from the rank of captain to that of brigadier-general in the revolutionary war. In 1776 he was a member of the convention for framing the constitution of Maryland; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1793 to 1803, and again from 1816 to 1822. He was a senator in congress from 1803 to 1815, and again from 1822 to 1833. He died April 22, 1839, in Baltimore, Md.
Smith, Samuel
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1767 in Peterborough, N. H. He held many public positions; and was for many years a manufacturer of paper. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1813 to 1815. He died in 1842.
Smith, Samuel A
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Bucks county from 1829 to 1833.
Smith, Samuel A
lawyer, congressman, was born June 26, 1822, in Monroe county, Tenn. In 1845 he was elected attorney-general for the third judicial district of Tennessee, which office he held until 1848. He was a delegate to the National convention of that year held at Baltimore; and was soon afterward elected a presidential elector. He was again chosen a presidential elector in 1852; and in 1850 took a deep interest in the affairs of the East Tennessee and Georgia railroad. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-third congress; and was re-elected to the thirtyfourth and thirty-fifth congresses. In 1859 he was appointed commissioner of the general land office. a was
Smith, Samuel Emerson
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, born March 12, 1788, in Hollis, N.
H. In 1812 he settled in Wiscasset, Maine; was representative in the legislature in 1819 and 1820; and was chief justice of the court of common pleas of Maine in 1821. He was justice of the state court of common pleas from 1822 to 1830; was governor of Maine from 1831 to 1834; and was again judge of the court of common pleas from 1835 to 1837. the latter year he was a commissioner to revise the public statutes of Maine. died March 4, 1860, in Wiscasset, Maine.
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Smith, Samuel Finley
educator, journalist, was born Nov. 13, 1855, in Dexter, Ohio. He began teaching at the age of sixteen years, earned all the money necessary to complete his education, won two of the three class honors, and in 1884 graduated with credit from the National Normal university at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught successfully as principal of Chester academy and the Racine public schools, both in his native county. He was elected clerk of courts of Meigs county in 1894, a position he still holds. He is also editor and proprietor of The Pomeroy Leader, one of the best local newspapers published in the state. came a