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Smith, Azariah Lawrence – Smith, Charles Adam

Smith, Azariah Lawrence

educator, clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 18, 1837, in Tompkins county, N. Y. For thirty years he was engaged in educational work as a teacher in the public schools.

He has filled pastorates in several churches in Missouri, and for many years was pastor of the First Baptist church of Mattock, Iowa. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and some of his poems have been given a place in standard works.

Smith, Ballard

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1815 to 1821.

Smith, Benjamin Bosworth

bishop, was born June 13, 1794, in Bristol, R.

I. In 1832 he became a protestant episcopal bishop of the diocese of Kentucky. His earliest work in the ministry was in Marblehead for two years, after which he became rector of St. George's church, Accomack county, Va., and two years later rector of Zion church, Charlestown, with charge of the church in Shepherdstown.

He died May 31, 1884, in New York city.

Smith, Benjamin Wilson

educator, clergyman, state legislator, was born Jan. 19, 1830, in Harrison county, Va. He is the senior member of a school supply firm of La Fayette, Ind.; and has served as a member of the Indiana state legislature for three terms.

Smith, Bernard

public official, congressman, was born in 1776 in Morristown, N. J. He was sent as a special bearer of dispatches to Europe; and was subsequently collector and postmaster at New Brunswick. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1819 to 1821; and during the latter year was appointed register of the land office in Arkansas, which office he held until his death. He died July 16, 1835, in Little Rock, Ark.

Smith, Boardman H

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in Whitingham, Vt. He settled in New York; was appointed judge of the Chemung county courts in 1859, and elected to the same office in that year. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.

Smith, Buckingham

lawyer, diplomat, antiquarian, author, was born Oct. 31, 1810, in Cumberland Island, Ga. He was a Spanish-American scholar and antiquary of note; twice secretary of the United States legation at Mexico; and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many publications are Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of the Pima, or Nevome; and Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida. He died Jan. 5, 1871, in New York city.

Smith, Carl

journalist, poet. He was a successful journalist and on the staff of the Chicago Record. He was the author of a volume of poems entitled Where the Sun Goes Down. He was drowned in September, 1898.

Smith, Carroll Earll

journalist, state legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1832, in Syracuse, N. Y. He was associate editor on the staff of the Syracuse Chronicle. In 1888 he was a member of the New York legislature; and in 1889-93 was postmaster of Syracuse, N. Y.

Smith, Charles

bookseller, was born in 1768 in New York. He was a bookseller in New York city; translated plays for the stage from the German of Kotzebue and Schiller; and edited the Monthly Military Repository in 1796-97. He also published a Political Pocket Almanac in 1797. He died in 1808 in New York city.

Smith, Charles Adam

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 25, 1809, in New York city. He was a lutheran clergyman of Rhinebeck, N. Y., and elsewhere. He was the author of The Catechumen's Guide; Men of the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; Inlets and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches; and Popular Exposition of the Gospels. He died Feb. 15, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.