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Smith, Otis David – Smith, Robert Davis

Smith, Otis David

educator, lecturer, was born June 27, 1831, in New Haven, Vt. For fifty years he has been identified with the educational interests of Alabama and the south; and has lectured before schools, colleges, and literary institutions.

Smith, Perry

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born May 12, 1783, in Woodbury, Conn. He settled in New Milford in 1807; was a state representative for four years; and was a judge of probate for two years. He was a senator in congress from 1837 to 1843. He died June 8, 1852, in Milford, Conn.

Smith, Persifer Frazer

lawyer, author, was born in 1808 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Forms of Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts; and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, in thirty-two volumes. He died May 17, 1882, in Westchester, Pa.

Smith, Richard

congressman, was born March 22, 1735, in Burlington, N. J.

He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776.

He died in 1803 near Natchez, Miss., while on a journey through the southern states.

Smith, Richard Somers

soldier, educator, author, was born Oct. 30, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a soldier and educator; president of Girard college in 1863-68; and for the last seven years of his life in charge of the department of drawing at the United States Naval academy. He was the author of Manual of Topographical Drawing; and Manual of Linear Perspective. He died Jan. 23, 1877, in Annapolis, Md.

Smith, Richmond Mayo

educator, author, was born in 1854 in Ohio. He is a professor of political economy at Columbia college from 1883; and the author of Statistics and Economics; Emigration and Immigration; and Statistics and Sociology.

Smith, Robert

clergyman, educator, was born in 1723 in Ireland. From 1751 till his death was pastor of the presbyterian church at Pequea, Pa., a part of the time supplying the church at Leacock.

Shortly after his settlement in Pequea he founded a classical and theological seminary, which enjoyed a high reputation. He died April 15, 1793, in Rockville, Pa.

Smith, Robert

protestant episcopal bishop, was born June 25, 1732, in England. In 1783 he opened an academy, which was chartered in 1786 as the South Carolina college. Of this institution he was president until 1798. He was unanimously elected in 1795 to be the first bishop of the protestant episcopal church in South Carolina. He died Oct. 28, 1801, in Charleston, S. C.

Smith, Robert

soldier, state legislator, cabinet officer, was born in November, 1757, in Lancaster, Pa. He served as a volunteer in the revolutionary war, and was present at the battle of Brandywine.

He served as a member of the Maryland legislature; was secretary of the navy from 1802 to 1805; and was secretary of the navy under President Madison. He died Nov. 26, 1842, in Baltimore, Md.

Smith, Robert

manufacturer, congressman, was born June 12, 1802, in Petersborough, N. H. He removed to Illinois in 1832; served in the Illinois legislature from 1836 to 1840; and was enrolling and engrossing clerk of the house of representatives of Illinois from 1840 to 1843. He was then elected to congress, and served until 1849; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress. He died in December, 1867, in Alton, Ill.

Smith, Robert Davis

soldier, educator, college president, was born Oct. 9, 1842, in Columbia, Tenn. His father, Rev.

Franklin G. Smith, founded the Columbian Athenæum, of which Robert, his eldest son, became president. He also served four years in the confederate army as captain.