Smart, Ephraim K
lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1813 in Prospect (now Searsport), Maine. In 1841 he was elected state senator from Maine; in 1842 was aid to the governor, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; and was re-elected to the senate the same year. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1847 to 1849, and from 1851 to 1853. From 1853 to 1858 he was collector of customs at Belfast, Maine. In 1854 he established the Maine Free Press, and was its editor for three years; and in 1858 was again elected to the legislature.
SMART, MRS. HELEN HAMILTON [GARDENER], author, was born in 1853 in Virginia. She is a Boston novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the furtherance of social reforms. She is the author of An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son, My Lord?; Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?; Pushed by Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; and The Fortunes of Margaret Weld.