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Smith, Thomas (State legislator was born Jan)

state legislator, was born Jan. 18, 1835, in England. In 1890-92 he was a member of the New Jersey state legislature; and in 1891 he was appointed commissioner for the World's Fair at Chicago.

SMITH, THOMAS CHURCH HAS- KELL, lawyer, soldier, was born March 24, 1819, in Acushnet, Mass. He engaged in the establishment of the Morse telegraph system in the west and south, and was president of the New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph company. At the beginning of the civil war he became lieutenant-colonel of the first Ohio cavalry, served under Gen. John Pope in Virginia, and became brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He was mustered out of the volunteer service in 1866; in 1878 entered the regular army as major and paymaster; and in 1883 was retired.