Smith, Edward, an Irish prelate, was born in Lis- burn, Comity <if Antrim, in 1()(>5, and was educated at the University of Didjlin, of which he was elected a fellow in 1684. In 1089 he went for safety to England, and was recommended and appointed chaplain to the fac- tories of the Smyrna Company at Constantinople and Smyrna. In 1093 he returned to England, and was made chaplain to William III, whom he attended four years in Flanders. He was promoted to the deanery of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in 1695, and advanced to the bish- opric of Down and Connor in 1699, being soon after ad- mitted to the Privy Council. He died at Bath in Oc- tober, 1720. In 1695 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of London, and contributed papers upon various subjects. He also printed four Sermons. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Chal- mers, Biofj. Diet. s. V.
Smith, Edward Parmelee, a Congregational minister, was born in South Britain. Conn,, June 8, 1827. He graduated at Yale College in 1849, and went there- after to Mobile, Ala., where he engaged in teaching, and continued in that occupation for three years, when he returned and entered the New Haven Theological Sem- inary. After remaining one year, he entered the Union Theological Seminary, which he left in 1854 for the Andover Theological SeminarA', where he finished his somewhat erratic course. He was ordained and in- stalled pastor of the Congregational Church in Pepper- ell, Mass., in 18.56, and continued in this relation for six years, when he resigned and became field agent for the United States Christian Union, Philadelphia, Pa. In 1866 he became field agent for the American Mission- ary Association, and remained such until 1871, when he received the appointment from government of Indian agent in Minnesota. In 1873 he was appointed United States Commissioner of Iiulian Affairs. From the year last named he was president of Howard University, and continued such until 1876, when he took a voyage to Africa. He died at Accra, Western Africa, June 15, 1876, after a laborious and useful life spent in the ser- vice of (jod and his country. (W. P. S.)
Smith, Eli, D.D., an eminent scholar and mission- ary, was born in Northfield, Conn., Sept. 13, 1801. He graduated at Y'ale College in 1821, and at Andover Theo- logical Seminary in 1826. In May of the same year he embarked on his mission to the East, to take charge of the printing establisiiment of the American Board at Malta. In 1827 he went to Beirut to study Arabic, and in 1828 returned to his work at Malta. In 1829 he made a tour with Dr, Anderson through Greece, and in 1830- 31, with Dr. Dwight, of Constantinople, through Arme- nia and Georgia to Persia, opening the way for the Nes- torian mission at Urumiah. He returned to the United States in 1832. and embarked on his return to Syria in September, 1833. Mrs. Smith died at Smyrna, Sept. 30, 1836. Until 1841, with the exception of a second visit to the United States, he was actively engaged in mis- sionary duty, and in the critical study of the Arabic lan- guage. Among otlier important services performed by him in this period was the production of a new and im- proved font of Arabic type, conformed to the calligraphy of a first-rate manuscript of the Koran, the types being made by Mr. Homan Hallock, the ingenious printer for the mission, from models prepared by Dr. Smith. The
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fipBt flint was cast by Tauchnitz. at Leipsir. under Dr. Smith's »ii|K?riiUeii<lfiu-e, and others of ditftrent sizes have since been cut and cast by Mr. HaUock in the I'nited States. He resinned his missionary work in Syria in the summer «( IM\. In the autumn of 184(> he commencetl the translation of the Scriptures into the Arabic laniiuai^e. The importance of tliis work is seen in the fact that that lan^'uai,'e is spoken by more than sixtv millions of the human family. After more than ei;;ht rears ofexhanstinf; and incessant toil, he completed the New Test., the IVntatench. the minor proydiets from lloseato Nahum.aud the ^'reaier part of Isaiah. At this stace of the enterprise, he was called from the scene of liis earthly lal«>rs to his heavenly reward. He died at lieirnt oii Sabliath. .Ian. 11. 1«;)7. Dr. Smith was a thorough scholar and a most laborious missionary. By his wise counsels and practical and comprehensive views. he. independeinly of his labors as translator, rendered important ser\ice to the .\merican Hoard, with the op- erations of which in the Levant he was identified for a quarter of a century. The value and completeness of Dr. K. i;<>l)inson's liesearr/ies in I'ldtstine are largely «hie to Dr. Smith's co-operation. See AUibone, Diet, of liril. anil .1 nitr. .1 ill Inns. s. v.
Smith, Eli Burnham, D.D.. a distinguished min- ister of the IJajitist denomination, was born in Shoreham, Vt.. .\i>ril IG. 1803. and was a graduate of Middlebury College in the cla.ss of 1MJ3. He pursued his theolog- ical stuilies at Andover anil Newton. JIass., where he was grailuated in the class of 1«_'C.. He was ordained as jiastor of the Hapiist Church in Buft'alo, N. Y., where lie remained three years, and then was pastor at Poidt- nev. Vt., for four years. He was elected president of the New Hampton Literary and Theological Institution (now Kairlax Institution ) in 1«3.3. Here he remained for near- ly twenty-eight years — 1833-01. In this position he devoted himself with great zeal and self-denial to his work, and sent forth from the seminary under his charge a large innnber of ministers, who have done good service in the cause of Christ, President Smith died at Col- chester, Vi.. .Ian. 0, 18f)L (J. C. S.)