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Smith, William Russell – Smyth, David Mcconnell

Smith, William Russell

lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 8, 1813, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He is a lawyer of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was a congressman in 1851-55; and during that period sat in the confederate congress. He is the author of The Alabama Justice; The Uses of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a novel; and Condensed Alabama Reports.

Smith, William Theodore

journalist, state senator, was born Feb. 7, 1860, in Monticello, Ark. He is the editor and owner of the Chronicle of Stuttgart, Ark. He has served as a member of the Arkansas state senate.

Smith, Winfield

railroad president, was born Aug. 16, 1827, in Fort Howard, Wis. He is president of the Milwaukee and Superior railway.

Smith, Worthington

clergyman, author, was born in 1795 in Hadley, Mass.

He was a congregational clergyman of Vermont, pastor at St. Albans in 1823-49, and president of the university of Vermont in 1849-56. He was the author of Select Sermons. He died Feb. 13, 1856, in St. Albans, Vt.

Smith, Worthington C

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born April 23, 1823, in St. Albans, Vt. He became an iron merchant and manufacturer. In 1863 he was chosen to the legislature of the state, and in 1864 and 1865 was elected to the state senate, officiating during the last session as president of the senate. He was elected a representative from Vermont to the fortieth, fortyfirst and forty-second congresses as a republican.

Smithers, Nathaniel B

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1818, in Dover, Del. He was clerk of the Delaware house of representatives in 1845 and 1847.

In 1863 he was appointed secretary of state for Delaware. He was elected a representative from Delaware to the thirty-eighth congress.

Smithson, James

scientist, philanthropist. The Smithsonian institution of Washington, D. C., was founded by congress in 1846, in accordance with the will of James Smithson, who bequeathed for its establishment over half a million dollars, and the institution was named in his honor.

Smock, John Conover

geologist, author, was born Sept. 21, 1842, in Holmdel, N. J. He is a geologist, assistant in charge of the New York State Museum from 1885, and the author of Report on Clay Deposits; and On Building-Stones in New York.

Smoke, Elmyra J

poet, was born in 1832, in Clinton county, Ohio. Her poems have principally appeared in the leading publications of the Pacific coast, and several have been given a place in standard collections. Mrs. Smoke now resides in Wichita, Kan.

Smyser, Martin Luther

lawyer, congressman, was born April 3, 1851, in Plaine township, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, Ohio, in 1872, and served one term, and has practiced law continuously since. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.

Smyth, Alexander

soldier, state legislator, congressman, author, born in 1765, in Ireland. He was a member of the Virginia legislature. He was appointed a colonel of rifles in 1808, and was appointed acting inspector-general, with rank of brigadier-general in 1812. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1825, and from 1827 to 1830.

He published Regulations for United States Infantry, in 1812, and a pamphlet on the Apocalypse. He died April 26, 1830, in Washington, D. C.

Smyth, David Mcconnell

inventor, was born July 3, 1833, in Ireland. He is the inventor of a method for shaving veneer wood, a machine for cutting wooden toothpicks, and the adjustable mitrebox, now in universal use.