Smith, Elijah
railroad president, was born April 23, 1840, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Since 1895 he has been president of the Oregon Improvement company; and has also been president of the Detroit, Hillsdale and South-Western railroad.
SMITH, MRS. ELIZABETH OAKES, author, poet, was born Aug. 12, 1806, in North Yarmouth, Maine. She was a prominent writer of prose and poetry, and was the first woman lecturer in America.
Her later years were passed in Hollywood, S. C. Among her many works are, The Sinless Child, and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed public attention to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha and Lily; and The Western Captive. She died in 1893.