Smith, Mary
artist, was born in 1842 in Philadelphia, Pa. She became remarkable for her paintings of little chickens and small animals of the woods. She left a volume of one hundred finely drawn and colored insects of eastern Pennsylvania. She also gave to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts a perpetual gift for an animal prize to ladies for the best painting, which has done much good during the past twenty years. She died in 1878.
SMITH, MRS. MARY LOUISE RILEY, author, poet, was born May 27, 1842, in Brighton, N. Y. She is a popular poet of New York city; and the author of Sometime, and Other Poems; The Inn of Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other Verses; and Cradle and Armchair.