Smith, William L. G – Smyth, Egbert Coffin
Smith, William L. G
author, was born in 1814 in Vermont. He is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin as It Is.
Smith, William Loughton
diplomat, congressman, author, was born in 1758 in Charleston, S. C. He was a representative from South Carolina from 1789 to 1799; and resigned in 1797 to become minister to Portugal; and was minister to Spain in 1800-01. He was an active federalist politician. He was the author of Speeches; Comparative View of the Constitutions of the States; and American Arguments for British Rights. He died in 1812 in Charleston, S. C.
Smith, William Nathan Har- Rell
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1812, in Murfreesborough, N. C. In 1840 he was elected a member of the state house of commons; and in 1848 was elected to the state senate. He was solicitor of the first judicial district for eight years. In 1858 he was again elected to the house of commons, but resigned his seat; and was elected a representative from North Carolina to the thirty-sixth congress. He took part in the rebellion of 1861 as a member of the so-called confederate congress; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866, and the New York convention of 1868. He died Nov. 14, 1889, in Raleigh, N. C.
Smith, William Rudolph
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 31, 1787, in La Trappe, Pa. He was a Wisconsin lawyer; and the author of Observations on Wisconsin Territory, 1831; and History of Wisconsin. He died Aug. 22, 1868, in Quincy, Ill.
Smith, William Russell
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 8, 1813, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He is a lawyer of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was a congressman in 1851-55; and during that period sat in the confederate congress. He is the author of The Alabama Justice; The Uses of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a novel; and Condensed Alabama Reports.
Smith, William Sooy
civil engineer, was born July 22, 1830, in Tarlton, Ohio.
In 1853 he graduated from the United States Military academy. In 1857 he made the first surveys for the international bridge across Niagara river; and constructed an iron bridge across Savannah river. He was active in the civil war, and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He has built numerous steel bridges; has served on numerous engineering expeditions; and in 1880 was president of the civil engineers club of the northwest.
Smith, William Stephens
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1755 in New York city. He was aid to General Sullivan in 1776; was lieutenantcolonel of the thirteenth Massachusetts regiment from 1778 to 1779; and was several times wounded. He was then, for a short time, attached to the staff of Steuben, but left in 1781 to become aid-decamp to Washington. He was secretary of legation under John Adams in England in 1785; was surveyor of the port of New York; and served three years as a member of the New York assembly. He was president of the New York Cincinnati society in 1804; and was a representative in congress from 1813 to 1816. He died June 10, 1816, in Lebanon, N. Y.
Smith, William Theodore
journalist, state senator, was born Feb. 7, 1860, in Monticello, Ark. He is the editor and owner of the Chronicle of Stuttgart, Ark. He has served as a member of the Arkansas state senate.
Smith, William Waugh
soldier, educator, author, was born March 12, 1845, in Warrenton, Va. He entered the confederate service at seventeen years of age, fought through the war in the ranks, twice refusing commissions, and was wounded at the battles of Fair Oaks and Gettysburg. He was principal of Bethel academy in 1871-78, when he became professor of languages in Randolph Macon, held office till 1886, and since that time has been president of that college.
He has published Outlines of Psychology; and Chart of Comparative Syntax of Latin, Greek, French, German, and English.
Smith, Winfield
railroad president, was born Aug. 16, 1827, in Fort Howard, Wis. He is president of the Milwaukee and Superior railway.
Smith, Worthington
clergyman, author, was born in 1795 in Hadley, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman of Vermont, pastor at St. Albans in 1823-49, and president of the university of Vermont in 1849-56. He was the author of Select Sermons. He died Feb. 13, 1856, in St. Albans, Vt.
Smith, Worthington C
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born April 23, 1823, in St. Albans, Vt. He became an iron merchant and manufacturer. In 1863 he was chosen to the legislature of the state, and in 1864 and 1865 was elected to the state senate, officiating during the last session as president of the senate. He was elected a representative from Vermont to the fortieth, fortyfirst and forty-second congresses as a republican.
Smith, Xanthus
soldier, artist, was born Feb. 26, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is known as a marine and landscape painter. He served during the civil war under Admiral Samuel F. DuPont, and has painted many of the naval engagements of the war.
Smith, Zachariah Frederick
educator, author, was born Jan. 7, 1827, in Henry county, Ky. He was superintendent of public instruction in Kentucky for four years; and is the author of a History of Kentucky.
Smithdeal, George Michael
educator, author, was born Sept. 23, 1855, near Salisbury, N. C. He taught school and attended college alternately for several years, and subsequently became a successful Spencerian penman. In 1883 he opened the Smithdeal Business college in Greensboro, N. C., which institution he subsequently moved to Richmond, Va. He has gradually built one of the finest institutions of the kind in the country, buying and uniting several other schools of similar character with the Smithdeal college, of which he is president. He is the author of Smithdeal's Bookkeeping, and other works.
Smithers, Nathaniel B
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1818, in Dover, Del. He was clerk of the Delaware house of representatives in 1845 and 1847.
In 1863 he was appointed secretary of state for Delaware. He was elected a representative from Delaware to the thirty-eighth congress.
Smithson, James
scientist, philanthropist. The Smithsonian institution of Washington, D. C., was founded by congress in 1846, in accordance with the will of James Smithson, who bequeathed for its establishment over half a million dollars, and the institution was named in his honor.
Smock, John Conover
geologist, author, was born Sept. 21, 1842, in Holmdel, N. J. He is a geologist, assistant in charge of the New York State Museum from 1885, and the author of Report on Clay Deposits; and On Building-Stones in New York.
Smoke, Elmyra J
poet, was born in 1832, in Clinton county, Ohio. Her poems have principally appeared in the leading publications of the Pacific coast, and several have been given a place in standard collections. Mrs. Smoke now resides in Wichita, Kan.
Smoot, Martha Adaline
educator, littérateur, was born Dec. 28, 1829, in Buckholts, Liberty county, Miss. She received her education at the Monticello seminary, Illinois, and in Mobile, Ala.
For many years she was principal of literary and musical schools in Galveston and Bryan, Texas. In 1892-93 she was chairman of the Texas advisory music committee for the world's fair. She is now a widow, and her son is president of the National bank of Colorado, Texas.
She has contributed extensively to current literature.
Smyser, Martin Luther
lawyer, congressman, was born April 3, 1851, in Plaine township, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, Ohio, in 1872, and served one term, and has practiced law continuously since. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Smyth, Albert Henry
educator, author, was born June 18, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the Central High school of his native city, and the Johns Hopkins university. During 1885- 86 he was assistant librarian of the Johns Hopkins university; and since 1886 has been professor of English language and literature in the Central High school of Philadelphia. He was the founder and editor of Shakesperiana, the first magazine ever devoted to the study of a single author. He is the author of American Literature, published in 1889; Life of Bayard Taylor; and of various articles and original investigations in the magazines and in the proceedings of learned societies.
Smyth, Alexander
soldier, state legislator, congressman, author, born in 1765, in Ireland. He was a member of the Virginia legislature. He was appointed a colonel of rifles in 1808, and was appointed acting inspector-general, with rank of brigadier-general in 1812. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1825, and from 1827 to 1830.
He published Regulations for United States Infantry, in 1812, and a pamphlet on the Apocalypse. He died April 26, 1830, in Washington, D. C.
Smyth, David Mcconnell
inventor, was born July 3, 1833, in Ireland. He is the inventor of a method for shaving veneer wood, a machine for cutting wooden toothpicks, and the adjustable mitrebox, now in universal use.
Smyth, Egbert Coffin
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 24, 1829, in Brunswick, Maine. He is a congregational clergyman prominent among liberal thinkers in his denomination, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Andover seminary from 1863. He is the author of The Value of the Study of Church History in Ministerial Education; and translation of Uhlhorn's Conflict of Christianity and Heathenism. He