Smith, Charles Mouzon, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Soutli, was born June 28, 1841, and joined the Church wlien he was sixteen. He was licensed to preach in 1859, and the same year en- tered the (ieorgia Conference. In 18()2, because of the al)sence of his senior preacher, a chaplain in the South- ern army, he w.as overtaxed, and was taken with a vio- lent hemorrhage of the lungs. From this he never re- covered. He was made a superannuate in 1862, and died Oct. 9, 1863. .See .Minutes of Annual Conferences of the .1/. /•;. Church, South, 1863,"p. 454.
Smith, Clark A., a Methodist Episcopal minis- ter, was born in Salem, Washington Co., N. Y., Dec. 3, 1810; converted Se|it. 14, 1828; licensed to exhort in 18;)0, and as local preacher in 1835; received on trial soon after, and travelled Lawrenceville, Loyalsock, Che- mung, Towanda. Fairport, and Millmont circuits. He died Sept. 13, 1844. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, iii, 643.
Smith, Cotton Mather, a Congregational min- ister, was Ix.rn in SulKeld, Conn., Oct. 26, 1731, and graduated at Yale College in 1751. He studied theol-
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ogy under the direction of the Kev. T. Woodbridge, of Ilattield, but before his course was completed he took charge of a school among the Indians at Stockbridge. He resumed his theological studies at Hatfield, and was licensed to preach in 1753. He was installed pastor of the First Church, Sharon, Conn., Aug. 28, 1755. Mr. Smith served as chaplain in the campaign of general Schuyler in 1755. He preached ids last sermon on the tirst Sunday in January, 180(5. but lingered for several months, dying Nov. i~, ISOIi. He pidjlished single Sermons (1770, 1771, 1793). "^Mr. Smith was not only a polished gentleman, and a discreet and affectionate pastor, but a devout and earnest Christian, and an in- structive and animated preacher." See Sprague, An- nals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 500.
Smith, Daniel (1), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Philadelphia in ]7(J9. Although his early educational advantages were small, he had a great taste for knowledge, and acquired a con- siderable stock of useful information. He was admitted into the travelling connection in 1789, and in 1790 was appointed to Boston with Jesse Lee. In 1791 he was admitted into full connection by the conference. In 1791 Mr. Smith located, and continued in that relation till the close of his life. He settled in New York city, and engaged to some extent in secular business; but continued in the vigorous exercise of his ministry till the close of life. He died Oct. 23, 1815. See Sprague, Annuls of the Amer. Pulpit, vii, 172.
Smith, Daniel (2), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Salisbury, Conn., Sept, 20, 180(>. When nineteen years of age he was convert- ed, and shortly after began to study at the Wilbraham Academy. In 1831 he was admitted on trial into the New York Conference. He labored on the Derby Cir- cuit; at Sag Harbor; Winstead, Conn.; Forsyth Street, New I'ork; Bridgeport, Reading, and Stratford, Conn.; Tarrytown ; Seventh Street and Green Street, New Y'ork ; and at Kingston, N. Y. He was a delegate to the General Conference of 1848, and a reserve in 1852. He died June 23, 1852. He was a plain, practical, earnest preacher. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1853, p. 192.
Smith, Darius, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born in Pittsford, N. Y., July 19, 1805, and united with the Church in April, 1827. He was licensed to preach in May, 1833, and in 1835 was received on trial by the Pittsburgh Conference. After laboring, with the exception of one j-ear (superannu- ated), until 1874, he became superannuated, and died in Saybrook, O., May 12, 1875. He was at the time of liis death a member of the Erie Conference. See Min- utes if Annual Conferences, 1875, p. 139.
Smith, David, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Wilmington, Del., about the year 1772; graduated at Hampden Sidney College in 1791 ; studied theology privately ; was licensed by Redstone Presbytery Nov. 14, 1792; was ordained and installed by the same pres- bytery as pastor of the congregations of (ieorge's Creek and the Tent in Fayette Co., Pa., Aug. 20, 1794, and of the congregations of Rehoboth and Roundhill. West- moreland Co., in 1798, where he remained until his death, Aug. 24, 1803. Mr. Smith was a well-read di- vine, and an earnest and faithfid preacher. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, iii, 2>iO, note. (J. L. S.)
Smith, Eben, a iNIethodist Episcopal minister, was born in Lenox, Berkshire Co., ]\Iass., July 18, 1774. His parents were religious persons, and meniliers of the Bap- tist Church. He was converted at the age of thirteen years, was licensed to preach in 1801, began his itiner- ant labors in the Litchtield Circuit, Conn., in November, 1803, was ailmitted on trial in the New Y'ork Conference in 1804, and appointed to Litclitield Circuit. He con- tinued to till appointments until 1819, when he was made presiding elder of the Hudson River District. In IX.— F V F
1823 he was appointed presiding elder of the Saratoga District; in 182() without an a])pointment ; six of the years between 1827 and 1840 he held an effective rela- tion and received a|)i)ointments ; seven of these years he was a su])ernumerary ; and from 1840 until his death, Jlay 18, 1844, he was superannuated. IMr. Smith was a member of the General Conference in the years 1812, 181G, 1820, and 1824. He was a man of much zeal, diligence, and usefulness, and a great lover of Jlethodism. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, iii, 473 ; Bangs, Hist, of the M.E. Church, 11,305 ; Hi, 33. (J. L. S.)