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Smith, Richard Penn

lawyer, author, was born March 13, 1799, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer and dramatist of Philadelphia, fifteen of whose plays were placed on the stage, and were once popular, Caius Marius being one of the best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a novel; The Actress of Padua, and Other Tales; and Lives of Crockett and Martin Van Buren. His complete works in four volumes were issued in 1888. He died Aug. 12, 1854, in Falls of Schuylkill, Pa.