Smith, Samuel W
educator, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1852, in Independence, Mich. He commenced to care for himself at the early age of twelve years; and engaged in teaching school at sixteen years of age, and for the last eighteen years has practiced law in Pontiac, Mich. In 1880 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Oakland county, and re-elected in 1882. In 1884 he was elected to the state senate; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
SMITH, MRS. SARAH LOUISA HICK- MAN, poet, was born June 30, 1811, in Detroit, Mich. She was a Cincinnati poet whose poems appeared in 1829. She died Feb. 12, 1832, in New York city.
SMITH, SEBA-Jack Downing-journalist, author, was born Sept. 14, 1792, in Buckfield, Maine. He was a journalist of Portland, Maine; and after 1842 of New York city. He was the author of The Letters of Major Jack Downing; Powhatan, a metrical romance; New Elements of Geometry; Way Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life; My Thirty Years Out of the Senate; and Dew-Drops of the Nineteenth Century. He died July 29, 1868, in Long Island, N. Y.