Smith, Henry F., a minister of the Methodist Epiwopiil Cbunh, South, was born Dec. 21, 1«I8, and entered the Florida Conference in 1857. He died in Ocola. Marion Co., ria.,.linH! 12, I8(i4. He was a Chris- tian of deep and ardent piety, and an excellent preach- er. .Set .Miiiiitis of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Ch., South, IXC. I, p,'.'(21.
Smith, Henry H., a mini-*ter of the Methodist F.piH<'npnl Church, was born in U<-nson, Vt.. in 1801; and at the age of lifieen joined the (^mgreu'ational Church. He prepared for college; but relimpiishcd his studies
' because of failing health, and engaged in teaching and the study of medicine. In 1834 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, was licensed to exhort, and in 1835 joined the New England Conference on trial, and was ordained deacon in 1837. He became a member of the Providence Conference at its formation, laboring initil 1870, when he superannuated. He died in South Yarmouth, Mass.. Jan. 30, 1871. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1871, p. 71.
Smith, Henry Ryan, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Canada, April 29, 1812. He was converted at an early age, and commenced to preach when about nineteen. At the age of twenty-six lie entered the Cenesee Conference; and his ministerial life was interrupted bv but one year's superaniniatioii (1847). He died at Wilson, N. Y*., April 29, 1873. Be- fore coming to the United States, Mr. Smith occnpiid an honorable position in his Conference in Canada, till- ing the two previous years one of the chief pulpits in Hamilton, Canada. He was a man of positive Chris- tian conviction and masterly in his preaching. See Minutes if Annual Conferences, 1873, p. Ill,
Smith, Hervey, a Congregational minister, was born in (Jranby, JIass., Sept. 19, 1793. He pursued his prejiaratory studies with Kev. Enoch Hale, of West Hampton; entered Williams College, and graduated in 1819, and studied theology with JNIr. Hale and Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plaintield, jNIass. He was or- dained and installed over the Eirst Church in Stafford, Conn., Oct. 9, 1822, and remained pastor of this Church eight years. He was called to the Eeeding Hills Church, West Springlield,]M ass., where he remained three years, and was installed pastor of Ireland Parish, now Holy- oke, continuing such for eight years. He was without charge while residing at (iranby. East Hampton, and West Hampton until his death, .lune 4, 1877. Eor sev- eral years he was secretary of Hampden County Home Missionary Society. He published two Sei'iiions, one preached after the death of his wife, and the other after the death of his only daughter. (W. P. S.)
Smith, Hezekiah, D.D., a Baptist minister, was born on Long Island, N. Y., April 21, 1737, and joined the Baptist Church in New York city in his nineteenth year. He began his education at Hopewell Academv, N. J., and graduated from Princeton in 17G2. He was ordain- ed in Charleston, S. C, where he preached until the spring of 17(;4. when he went to New England. He organized the Eirst Baptist Church in Haverill, IMass., May 9, 17()5; and was recognised as its pastor Nov. 12, 1761). In 177t) Mr. Smith was appointed chaplain in the American army, and continued to serve until the close of the war. He greatly assisted in the establish- ment and prosperity of Brown University, and con- tinued to be pastor of the First Church, Ilavcrill, for forty years, when, after preaching from .lohn xii, 24, he was smitten with ]iaralysis, and died, after a week's ill- ness, Jan. 22, 1805. Dr. Smith was a man of commanding presence and winning manners, and was strictly evan- gelical. See Spraguc, A nnah (f the A mer. Pulpit, vi, 97.
Smith, Hugh, D.D., an Episcopal clergyman, was born near Fort Hamilton. L. I., Aug 29, 1795. He was trained for college at the F'latbush Academy; and, grad- uating from Columbia College, New York, in 1813, he pursued his theological studies under bisho|i Hobart, from whom he received deacon's orders in 181(; and (iriest's orders in 18)9. In April, 1817, he was appoint- ed by Dr. Hrown his assistant in (Jrace Church, and in the same year accepted the rectorship of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn. In 1819 he became rector of the ICpiscopal Church in Augusta, (Ja. Uesigning this charge in 1831, he returned to the North, and was called to the rectorsliip of Christ Church, Hartford, Conn., where he remained till 1833. when he became mission- ary of the Church of the Holy ICvangelist in New York. St. Peter's Church, his last parish, was offered to him in I83ij; and in the same year he became professor of Pas-
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toral Theology and Pulpit Eloquence in tlie General 'I'lieological Seminary, New York. He died in the St, Peter's rectory, March 25. 1849. Dr. Smith published, The Heart Delineated in its State of jV«^«;v, and as Re- newed hy Grace (1834, 12mo) :— also Sermons (1827, 1835). See Sprague, Annuls oftheAmer. Pulpit, v, 605.
Smith, Isaac (1), an eminent early minister of the jMethodist Episcopal Church, was horn in New Kent Co., Va., Aug. 17, 1758. He had lew early educational advantages; and at the age of thirteen was appren- ticed to a house carpenter. Previous to the Declara- tion of Independence he enlisted as a volunteer, and ^^•as for more than four years in active service; and re- ceived an honorable discharge at Goshen, N. Y., in Au- gust, 1779. At the age of twenty-tive he made a pub- lic profession of faith, and immediately began to labor as exhorter; and in April, 1784, he was admitted to the travelling connection, on trial, in Virginia, and travelled that year the Salisbury Circuit, N. C; Tar River Cir- cuit in 1785; Charleston, S. C, in 1786; Santee Circuit in 1787; Edisto Circuit in 1789; Charleston in 1790; Eroad River in 1791; Santee Circuit in 1792. He was presiding elder from 1793 to 1795. In 1796 he retired from active work on account of ill-health, took a loca- tion, and went into the mercantile business. He made his residence at Camden, S. C, where he remained twenty-four years, when (1820) he was readmitted to the Conference. In 1822 he was appointed missionary to the Creek Indians, and remained among them live years. He took a superannuated relation in 1827, left the Creek Nation in February, 1828, and went to Mis- sissippi, where he labored two or three years. He died in Monroe County, Ga., July 20, 1834. Mr. Smith was a man of sterling Christian character, and of a sweet and loving disposition. Believing every word of God, meek above the reach of provocation, and thoroughly imbued with the spirit of love and devotion, he was a saint indeed. As a preacher he was earnest in manner, and concise and energetic in language. See Sprague, Annals uf the Amer. Pulpit, vii, 102; Minutes of Annual Conferences, ii, 346; Stevens, Hist, of the M. K. Church, ii, 140 ; iii, 57, 384 ; Simpson, Cyclop, of Methodism, s. v.