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Smyth, Egbert Coffin – Snethen, Nicholas

Smyth, Egbert Coffin

clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 24, 1829, in Brunswick, Maine. He is a congregational clergyman prominent among liberal thinkers in his denomination, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Andover seminary from 1863. He is the author of The Value of the Study of Church History in Ministerial Education; and translation of Uhlhorn's Conflict of Christianity and Heathenism. He

Smyth, Frederick

governor. was governor of New Hampshire for two years, from 1865 to 1867.

Smyth, George W

congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was elected a representative in congress from Texas from 1853 to 1855. (

Smyth, Herbert Weir

educator, author, was born Aug. 8, 1857, in Wilmington, Del. He is a professor of Greek in Bryn Mawr college from 1888, and the author of Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects.

Smyth, Thomas

clergyman, author, was born July 14, 1808, in Ireland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Charleston, pastor of the Second church in 1832- 73, and very active as a controversialist, among whose many writings are: Lectures on the Prelatical Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession; History of the Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live?

Solace for Bereaved Parents; Calvin and His Enemies; and Ecclesiastical Republicanism. He died Aug. 20, 1873, in Charleston, S. C.

Smyth, Thomas A

soldier, was born in Ireland. He served through the civil war, and for gallant and meritorious services received the rank of brigadier-general. He died April 6, 1865, in Farmville, Va.

Smyth, William

educator, author, was born in 1797 in Pittston, Maine. He is an educator who was professor of mathematics at Bowdoin college from 1825, and is the author of Elements of Algebra; Treatise on Algebra; Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus; and Lectures on Modern History. He died April 3, 1868, in Brunswick, Maine.

Sneed, William H

congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.

Snelling, Henry Hunt

author, was born Nov. 8, 1817, in Plattsburg, N.

Y.

He is a writer living at Cornwall, N. Y., from 1871, and the author of History and Practice of Photography; and Dictionary of the Photographic Art.

Snelling, Josiah

soldier, author, was born in 1782, in Boston, Mass. He was distinguished in the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811; and attained the rank of colonel. He was the author of Remarks on General Hull's Memoirs. He died Aug. 20, 1829, in Washington, D. C.

Snelling, William Joseph

journalist, author, was born Dec. 26, 1804, in Boston, Mass. He was a journalist of Boston; and the author of The Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored; Truth: a Satirical Poem; and Six Months in a House of Correction. He died Dec. 24, 1848, in Chelsea, Mass.

Snethen, Nicholas

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 15, 1769, in Glen Cove, L. I. He was a methodist itinerant preacher, active in the formation of the methodist protestant denomination; and the author of Preaching the Gospel; Lay Representation; and Lectures on Biblical Subjects. He died May 30, 1845, in Princeton, Ind.