Smead, Wesley
physician, philanthropist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1800, in Westchester county, N. Y. He founded in 1850 the Widows' home in Cincinnati, to which he gave $37,000, and gave liberally to every public charity that came to his notice. Besides essays on banking, he published Guide to Wealth, or Pathway to Health, Peace and Competence. He died Jan. 6, 1871, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
SMEDES, MRS. SUSAN [DABNEY], author, was born Aug. 10, 1840, in Raymond, Miss. She is a Mississippi writer now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a Southern Planter is much valued as an accurate picture of southern life.
SMEDLEY, SAMUEL LIGHTFOOT, contractor, author, was born Dec. 29, 1832, in Edgmont, Pa. In 1856 he plotted a district of West Philadelphia into streets, and soon after published the first complete atlas of Philadelphia, which became the standard authority for many years.