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Smith, George Carson

railroad president, was born March 4, 1855, in Granville, Wash. Since 1894 he has been president of the Atlanta and West Point railroad, and also of the Western railway of Alabama.

Smith, George Handy

United States senator, was born July 21, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1871 he was chosen a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature, and was twice re-elected. In 1875 he was elected a state senator, and in 1877 a United States senator. In 1885 and again in 1887 he was chosen president pro tem. of the senate.

Smith, George L

soldier, merchant, journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1840, in Hillsborough county, N. H. He served in the army; settled in Louisiana at the close of the civil war and engaged in mercantile business, and was elected a member of the assembly in 1870 and 1872. He was proprietor of the Shreveport Southwestern Telegram; and was president of a savings bank and trust company. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-third congress to fill a vacancy.

Smith, George W

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1846, in Putnam county, Ohio. In 1870 he was admitted to the practice of law by the supreme court of Illinois, since which time he has resided in Murphysboro. In 1880 he was the republican elector for his congressional district, and cast the vote of the district for Garfield and Arthur. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third; fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Smith, George William

governor.

He was governor of Virginia from 1811 to 1812, and lost his life at the burning of the Richmond theater, Dec. 26, 1811.

Smith, Gertrude

author, was born in 1860 in California. She is a Boston writer, whose early life was spent in the west. She is the author of The Rousing of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The Arabelia and Araminta Stories; and Dedora Heywood.

Smith, Giles Alexander

soldier, was born Sept. 29, 1829, in Jefferson county, N. Y. He became captain in the eighth Missouri volunteers in 1861, and in 1863 was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Nov. 8, 1876, in Bloomington, Ill.

Smith, Gustavus Woodson

soldier, author, was born Jan. 1, 1822, in Scott county, Ky. He was a confederate general who lived in New York city from 1876. He was the author of Notes on Life Insurance; and Confederate War Papers.

He died in 1896.

Smith, H. Boardman

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1826, in Whitingham, Vt. He was appointed judge of the Chemung county courts in 1859, and was elected to the same office.

He was elected to the forty-second congress, and was re-elected to the fortythird congress as a republican.

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere

educator, author, was born Nov. 5, 1819, in New London, Conn. He is an educator who has been professor of natural philosophy at Hobart college since 1868. He is the author of Natural Philosophy; and First Lessons in Astronomy and Geology.

Smith, Henry Bernard

clergyman, was born Feb. 16, 1848, in Marietta, Ohio. He graduated from the Marietta college, and has attained distinction as one of the foremost clergymen in the United States. For sixteen years he was pastor of a large church in Nashua, N.

H., and since 1894 has filled a pastorate in Troy, N. Y. For eight years he was chaplain of the second regiment naa tional guard of New Hampshire; and is a prominent Mason.

Smith, Hezekiah Bradley

inventor, congressman, was born July 24, 1816, in Bridgewater, Vt. He learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, and became an inventor and manufacturer of wood machinery. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-sixth congress. He died Nov. 3, 1887, in Smithville, N. J.