Smith, Hubbard M
physician, poet, was born Sept. 6, 1820, in Winchester, Ky.
Since 1844 he has been engaged in the practice of medicine, and since 1849 in Vincennes, Ind., with the exception of about ten years, in which he was engaged either in editing and publishing the Vincennes Gazette or acting as postmaster. For twelve years he was United States pension surgeon; was one of the charter members of the Western Writers' association of Indiana, and is a member of several medical bodies.
He has contributed valuable articles to the medical press, and his poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.