Smith, Elijah, a minister of the ^lethodist Epis- eopiil (hurcli. was born in Newport, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1797. He united with the Church in 18"2(t. and in 1832 was ad- mitted on trial into the < )noida Conference. His effect- ive ministry closed in 18.j.% He was a member of the IHack Kiver Conference at the time of his death, which occurred in Ix' I!oy, N. Y.. Sept. 3(1, 1870. See Minutes of .Siihiinl Ciifinnrm. 1871, p. 144.
Smith, Ethan, a Congregational minister, was bom Dec. I'.t, 17ti-2, in IJelchertown, Mass. He learned the shoemaker's irade,and entered the army in 1780; but af- ter leaving it was converted and determined to preach. Having prepared for college, he entered Dartmouth, and graduated in I7!HI. He was ordained [lasior at Haver- hill, N. IL. early in I7!il. where he remaine<l until 17II9, when he was settled in llopkiiilon, which place he left in I8|K and became pastor of tlie Presbyterian Church in Hebron, N. Y. From the latter place he went to Poult- ney, Vt., and remained five years as pastor of the Con- gregational Church, when he went to Hanover. l\Iass., bill left in a short liiiu', and was appointeil citv niission- aryin Itosioii. Hvdiedin l5<iyl>toii.Mass.. .\ug.-2!t. IM'I. He publistieii..4 Jiis.iirtiilion on l/ic /'ro/i/ncits (180'.l):— A /ill/ to tlif Fif/uriilire Liini/iifif/e of the I'rophecies (1814): — A Vinr' irf'lhf Triuilij, Iteniipird as an A nxtrer to Noah Worrefterf HiliU Anrg ( 1824 ) : — A IVm/' of the llehritrg, l>r»iipieil to Prove, amoni/ otiiir Thinr/g, that the A l/orif/- inr» of Avierieii are Jlexiftiilnl J'rom the Ten Trihes of luruel (\><i:,):-—Meiiioirii <f Mrs. Al>it/iiil Hailey: — Four l.frtnre» on the Snhjecl and Mode <f Jiaptiitm : — A Key to the Uerelalion (1833): — I'rophelir. Ciitechixm III l.,,id to the Study of the I'rophetic Sniplures (18:^1)) : — and a number of occasional Sermons. .See Sprague, A nnaU of the A mer. I'nipit, ii, 2'.tC.
Smith, Fieldoii M., a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, was born near Hodginville, Hardin Co., Ky., .lune Ui, 1833, but removed to Warren Co., 111., with liis father in 1840. He joined the Church Jan. 5, 18,')1, and was licensed to preach in the conference year 1853-54. He was received on trial by the liock Kiver Conference in September, 1854, and was ordained dea- con at the first session of the Central Illinois Conference in 1850, and elder in 1858. He was superannuated in 1802, but became effective in 1804, and so contimied imtil his death, in Avon, 111., Dec. 20. 1808. See Min- htes of A nnuul Conferences, 1808, p. 285.
Smith, Francis, a Baptist minister, was born in Wakefield, !Mass., .Inly 12, 1812, and was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1837. and of the New- ton Theidogical Institution in the class of 1840. He was ordained in Providence, B. I., as pastor of the Fourth Baptist Church, and remained there thirteen years — 1841-54. He supplied the Baptist Church in Kutland, Vt.. for some time, and then accepted an appointment as district secretary of the .American Baptist Publication Society. Having resigned this position, he acted for some time as missionary of the Rhode Island State Con- vention. He died in Providence, .Jan. 29, 1872. (J. C. S.)
Smith, Friend "W., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Lenox, Bucks Co., !Mass., Dec. 4, 1799. He entered the ministry' in 1821, and continued to perform efficient service until the day be- fore his semi-centennial conference, when he suddenly died. April 4, 1871. Mr. Smith was attractive and use- fid in his services, even to the last. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1871, p. 102.
Smith, Gad, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Goshen, Litchfiekl Co., Conn., in 1788; convert- ed in 1807; approved of as an exhorter in 1810; licensed as a local preacher in 1811; received into the itiner- ancy on trial in Jinie, 1812, and into full connection in 1814, and was stationed as follows: Middletown Circuit; Litchfield Circuit, 1812; New Haven, 1818-14; Hotch- kissville, 181.5. He died Sept. 24, 1817. He w.as a man of deep piety, good natural and acquired abilities, and sound and acceptable preaching talents. See Min- utes of Annual Conferences, i, 309; Stevens, Hist, of the M. K. Church, iv, 324 ; Bangs, Hist, of the M. E. Church, iii, 79.
Smith, Gad N., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Sharon. Litchfield Co., Conn., Dec. 25, 1812; converted in his eighteenth year; received on trial in the New York Conference in June, 1830, and was appointed to Wethersficld Circuit. He subsecpiently preached at Litchfield in 1837-38: in Burlington Cir- cuit in 1839-40; at Norwalk, Conn., in 1841 ; snperiui- merary in 1842; at Sullivan Street Church, New York, in 1843; at Seventh Street Church, New York, in 1845, where he died, Oct. 22 of the same year. Mr. Smith, as a man, was amiable, modest, and unassuming in manners. His ])reaching was solid and instructive. As a i)astor he excelled, always faithful to the personal interests of ever\' one of his Hock. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, iv, 30.
Smith, George (1), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1801. Of Presbyterian ]iarentage. he, nevertheless, joined the Methodist J^piscopal Church in Chenango County, N.Y., in November, 1817. He joined the Pitts- burgh Conference in 1832. and was ordained deacon in 1834 and elder in 18.30. He afterwards went West and j<iined the Missouri ('onference. He died Sept. 1, 1872. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1872, p. 737.