Smith, Stephen
physician, author, was born Feb. 19, 1823, in Onondaga county, N. Y. He was a New York surgeon; and professor of clinical surgery in the university of the city of New York from 1874. He is the author of Handbook of Surgical Operations; and Principles of Operative Surgery. SMITH, THEOPHILUS WASHING- TON, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 28, 1784, in New York city.
After serving in the United States navy he was admitted to the bar in his native city in 1805, having been a law-student in the office of Aaron Burr, and a fellowstudent with Washington Irving. In 1816 he visited the west in the interest of his father-in-law, who had a large estate in Ohio, and proceeding as far as Edwardsville, Ill., settled there. In 1823 he was elected state senator, and filled other important offices. He died May 6, 1846, in Chicago, Ill.