Smith, James Bradford, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in War- ren Co., Ga., and united with the Church in 1836. He
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received license to preach in 1845, ami in 1846 joined | the CJeortjia ConlVrence. His last appoiiitnu-iit was Ogletliorin', wliire liis brief ministry closed with death, Julv 7, 18.')3. See Miniitrg <>/ Annual Cvn/titncts of
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Smith, James C, a minister of the JlethwUst KpiM.>'pal Cliuri li. was born in New Liberty, Lycoming Co., I'a., Aiif,'. ;M, 1N24, and was converted at the ajje of nine. He was adniitieil into the Iowa Conference in 1840 (or 1K47), and was transferreil n> tlie Jlisstmri Con- ference in May, 1858. After servinfj; in JellVrst)n City and St. Lonis. he was appointed presidiofj elder of tlie Kansas City District. I'ersecnted in the war. he es- caped witli his family into Iowa, wliere lie continued until the next session of the conference, when he was placed in charj^e of tlie St. Louis District. In 18(55 he totjk a supernumerary relation, and died May 8, 18GG. See Miniiten nf' .lniin<il Coiififrences, 18l!l>, p. 204.
Smith, James M., a I'resbyterian minister, was Ixirn at .lamaiia, N. V.. in 1810. He entered Prince- tan Theological Si'ininary in 1837. and, alter remain- ing one year, tiiii>bctl ids tlieological stiulies in the Union 'I'lieological Si-minary in 1840. lie was ordained and installed pastor of liie Upper Ten-mile Creek and Mount Nelx> ciuirches, I'a.. remaining such till 1843, when he resigned, and became a stated supjdy of the churches at Iletldehem and North IJranch, Pa. He then Ix'came pastor of the Church at Tarcntum, Pa., in 1844. and continued in this relatidii until 1853, a period nf nine years, laboring with success and usefidness. He removed to (Jrand Spring, Wis., and remained without charge until his ileal h, in 1854. (\V. P. S.)
Smith, Jeremiah, an English Dissenting minis- ter, was born al)oiit 1(153. It is not known where he received his education, He was first pastor of a Church at Andover, in Hampshire, and afterwards succeeded Mr. Spademan, as co-pastor with Mr. Kosewell, in Silver Street, where he was also one of the Friday -evening lecturers. Amid the theological contentions of the year 1719, he stood fonvard the chami)ion of the Trinity'. He continued to preach with great zeal the faith which others were attempting to destroy until the day of his death, Aug. 21(, 1723. He was one of four who com- posed the work entitled The I)oclrine of the Trinity mated ami l>efended. The Krpnsition of the Epvstles to Ti/ug ami P/iileimm, in the continuation of Henry's Com- metitary, was by his y)en. He pid)lished several sepa- rate Sermiitm (1712 and 1713, 8vo): — Four Sermons (1715 and 171t;, «vo):— 0;j the Death of Sir Thomas Abiiiy (1722, 4to). See Bemtett, Hist, of I/issenters, ii, 34'.t.
Smith, John (H, an English clorgj'man, was Iwrn in ^\'arwick^hir«■ in 1,')()3, and elected in 1.577 a scholar r(f St. .lolm's College, Oxfonl, wliere he also obtained a fellowship. He succeeded Dr. Lancelot Andrews as lecturer in .St. Paul's Cathedral, London. In Septem- l)cr, 1.592, he was presented to the living of Clavering, Etwex. He died in November, KIHi. His works are. The, K»sex iJove, etc., in three treatises (1()29, 4to): — Erpotilion on the Crenl, anil h'xjilanation of the Articles of our ('hrintitai Faith, in seventy-three sermons (1(J32, fol.). .S4-e < 'hiilmcrs, liimj. I>irt. s. v.
Smith, John (2», an ICnglish divine and instruct- or, w»s born ill Acliiirch, near Oiindle, in ltJI8. He en- tereil Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1(13(5, and in 1(*>44 was chosen fellow of (Queen's College. He died Aug, 7, 1(i52. Certain treatises by Mr. Smith were puiv liNhed by Dr.,Iohn Worlhington ((Cambridge, KJCO, 4to) under the title of S,lirt />i^ri,nr.ii.i. A second edition, corrected, with a funeral sermon by Patrick, was ])iib- linhed at Combri.lge (l(;73.4to). One of the discourses, tliat I'pim J'rojihery, was translated into Latin by Le Clerc, and prefixed to his t'ommenlary on the J'rophet.i (1731). Sc-c Allibone, JHit. of lU-it. and Amer. Au- Ihort, 8. v.; Darling, Cyclop, iiihlio;,. s. v.; Hook, Fc- cUsiatlicul llimjrnphy, ». V. ; Chalmers, isioy. Diet. s. v.
Smith, John (3), a learned English divine, was born in Lowthcr, Westmoreland, Nov. 10, 1G50. After being muler several teachers, he was for some time at the school_ of .Vpplcliy, whence he went to St. John's College, Cam- bridge, June 11, U)74. He took his degree of A.B. in 1G77, and of A.M. in lt)81, and was also ordained both deacon and priest. In the same year he was invited to Durham by Dr. Denis (iranville, and in July, 1682, was admitted a minor canon of Durham. About the saine time he was collated to the curacy of Croxdale, and in July, 1684, to the living of Witton (iilbert. In 1686 he went to Ma- drid as chaidain to lord Lansdowne, the English am- bassador. In 1694 Crew, bishop of Durham, appointed him his domestic chaplain, collated him to the rectory and hos])ital ofGatesliead in June, 1695, and to a prebend of Durhain in September following. In 1696 he was created D.D. at Cambridge, and treasurer of Durham in 1699, to which bishop Crew, in July, 1704. added the rectory of Bishop Wearmouth. He died at Cambridge, July 30, 1715. Dr. Smith was learned, generous, and strict in the duties of his profession. Besides his edition of Bede's IJistort/, he published four single Serium).<i. See Allibone, /Hcf. of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Bioy. Brit.; Hutchinson, Durham, i, 61; Nicholson, Letters, i, 224; Chalmers, Bioy. Diet. s. v.