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Smith, Charles Henry – Smith, Edward M

Smith, Charles Henry

soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 1, 1827, in Hollis, Maine. He has been successively lawyer, soldier, state senator, and army officer, and is now on the retired list of the United States army in Washington, D. C.

Smith, Charles P

merchant, banker, state legislator, was born March 4, 1847, in Canada. He was educated in the public schools of Burlington; is president of the Burlington Savings bank; and in 1894 was elected a member of the Vermont house of representatives.

Smith, Charles Perrin

genealogist, was born Jan. 5, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. On attaining his majority he became proprietor and editor of The National Standard of Salem, N. J., and conducted it for eleven years. He served in the legislature of 1852, and filled numerous public positions. He was the author of a genealogy. He died Jan. 27, 1883, in Trenton, N. J.

Smith, Charles Shaler

civil engineer, was born Jan. 26, 1836, in Pittsburg, Pa. He constructed the confederate states powder works, one of the largest that had then been built. In 1866 he organized the engineering firm which subsequently became the Baltimore Bridge company, of which he was president and chief engineer. He died Dec. 19, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.

Smith, Chester G

lawyer, orator, was born Dec. 31, 1870, in Frankfort, Mich. He received a thorough education in the graded and normal schools; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Utica, N. Y. He has a successful practice in Buffalo, N. Y.

Smith, Dabney Howard

state auditor, was born Nov. 24, 1821, near Georgetown, Ky. In 1849 he was elected to the Kentucky state legislature, and in 1853 he was elected state senator, without opposition, from the district composed of the counties of Scott and Fayette, the latter being the home of Henry Clay.

Smith, Daniel

United States senator, was born about 1740 in Fauquier county, Va. He was one of the earliest emigrants to Tennessee, and was a general of militia. He was a senator in congress from Tennessee during the year 1798, and was again a senator from 1805 to 1809. He died in July, 1818.

Smith, Daniel

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1806, in Salisbury, Conn.

He was a methodist clergyman of New York state, and very active in the temperance cause. He was the author of Wisdom in Miniature; Gems of Female Biography; Anecdotes for the Young; Teachers' Assistant; Lectures to Young Men; Book of Manners; and Anecdotes of the Christian Ministry. He died June 23, 1852, in Kingston, N. Y.

Smith, Dietrich C

soldier, manufacturer, banker, congressman, was born April 4, 1840, in Hanover. He entered the union army in 1861, and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of captain. He engaged in banking and manufacturing in Pekin, Ill.; was a representative in the legislature of Illinois, and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-seventh congress.

Smith, Edward Delafield

lawyer, author, poet, was born May 8, 1826, in Rochester, N. Y. He was a lawyer of New York city, and the author of Avidæ, a poem; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a poem; Reports of Cases in the New York Court of Common Pleas; and Addresses to Juries in Slave Trade Trials. He died April 13, 1878, in Shrewsbury, N. J.

Smith, Edward Henry

farmer, congressman, was born in 1809, in Smithtown, N. Y. In 1860 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress.

Smith, Edward M

railroad president, was born Jan. 5, 1854, in St. Albans, Vt. Since 1896 he has been president of the Central Vermont railroad.