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Smith, Joseph Rowe – Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence

Smith, Joseph Rowe

soldier, was born Sept. 8, 1802, in Stillwater, N. Y.

During the Mexican war he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel. He became chief mustering officer of Michigan in 1862, military commissary of musters in 1863, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral, United States army, for long and honorable service. He died Sept. 3, 1868, in Monroe, Mich.-

Smith, Joseph S

lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born June 20, 1824, in Fayette county, Pa. He moved to Oregon, and then to Washington territory; was made prosecuting attorney; and was elected to the territorial legislature, and made speaker in 1857. He was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-first congress.

Smith, Josiah

congressman, was born in 1745 in Pembroke, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1803. He died in March, 1803, of smallpox.

Smith, Judson

clergyman, educator, author, was born June 28, 1837, in Middlefield, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman and educator; secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1884; and the author of Lectures in Church History; and Lectures on Modern History.

Smith, Justin Almerin

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1819, in Ticonderoga, N. Y. He was a baptist clergyman of Chicago, editor of The Standard from 1853; and the author of The Martyr of Vilvorde; Sinclair Thompson, the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the Word; Modern Church History; and Patmos. He died in 1896.

Smith, Lewis W

educator, poet, was born Nov. 22, 1866, in Malta, Ill. After spending a term in Beloit college, he later attended the college of Fairfield, Neb., from which institution he graduated in 1889. He has attained success as an educator in Nebraska; and his poems have appeared in current literature.

Smith, Lucius Edwin

educator, author, was born Jan. 29, 1822, in Williamstown, Mass. From 1868 till 1875 he was literary editor of the New York Examiner. In 1877 he became editor of the Watchman, Boston, of which journal since 1881 he has remained associate editor.

Besides contributing numerous articles to periodicals he has edited Heroes and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise.

Smith, Mrs. Lura Eugenie

journalist, author, was born in 1864 in New York. She is a journalist of Little Rock; and the author of On the Track and Off the Train.

Smith, Martin Luther

soldier, was born in 1819 in New York city. He entered the confederate service, became a brigadier-general, commanded a brigade in defence of New Orleans, was at the head of the engineer corps of the army, and planned and constructed the defences of Vicksburg, where he was taken pris- He subsequently attained the rank oner. of major-general. After the war he became chief engineer of the Selma, Rome and Dayton railroad. He died July 29, 1866, in Rome, Ga.

Smith, Martin Snyder

public official, railroad president, was born Nov. 12, 1834, in Lima, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of Pontiac, Mich. He has been vice-president and treasurer of the Alger-Smith company and the Manistique Lumbering company; president of the Manistique Railway company; president of the American Exchange National bank; president of the Michigan Condensed Milk company; and in 1872-88 was police commissioner.

Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence

author, was born July 30, 1840, in Attica, N. Y. She is a Cincinnati writer for young people; and the author of The Browns; Child Life on a Farm; Jolly Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack; More Good Times at Hackmatack; and Miss Ellis's Mission.