Smith, Joseph (3), D.D., a minister of the Presby- terian Church, was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., July 15, 1796. He entered .lefferson College and was graduated in IS!."). From thence he went to Princeton Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1819. He was ordained and commenced ])reaching in Vir- ginia, where he remained several years. He was prin- cipal of the academy at Staunton, Va., and also of that at Frederick ('ity, Aid. He subseipiently became presi- dent of Franklin College, O., and also of a college at Frederick City. After this he became general agent of the Presbyterian synods of Western Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, and Eastern Ohio. He was pastor of the churches of Hound Hill, and at Greensburg, Pa.,
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at which latter place he died, Dec. 4, 1868. He was the author of Old Red Stone and a History of Jefferson CoUeije. He possessed great versatilitj' of talent, and served the Church in the various relations he sustained to it with great acceptability and usefulness. See riumley, Preshyterian Church, p. 29(5. (W. P. S.)
Smith, Joseph (-1) (Mormon prophet). See Mor- mons.
Smith, Joseph (o), a Baptist minister, was born in Hamjistead, N. H., .Jan. 31, 18(i.S, and ])ursned his studit:s at the New Hampton and Newton institu- tions. Wishing to secure a full collegiate education, he entered Brown University and was graduated iu the class of 1837, and was ordained Sept. 27, 1837. His pastorates were at Woonsocket and New|)ort. R. I., and at Grafton and North Oxford, Mass. In the latter place he died, April 26, 1866, (J. C. S.)
Smith, Josiah, a Congregational minister, was born in Charleston, S. C, in 1704, and graduated at Harvard College iu 1725. He Ijegan to preach within about a year of his graduation, and was ordained July 11, 1726. In 1729 he maintained a learned dispute with Eev. H. Fisher on the right of private judgment, and in 1740 he espoused the cause of Mr. Whitelield. In 1749 he received a stroke of palsy, from which he never recovered so far as to be able to articulate distinctly. He nevertheless continued writing sermons, many of which were published. jMr. Smith was an earnest friend of the cause of American independence, and on the surrender of Charleston became a prisoner of war, but was released on parole. In 1781 he was ordered out of Charleston, and landed in Philadelphia, where he died in October of that year. Mr. Smith was a respect- able preacher, a learned divine, and a writer of consider- able reputation. He published, <SVr/«OHS (1726-45): — Sermons (1752, 8vo): — The Church of Ephesus Ar- raiyned (1765) : — Letters, etc. See Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, i, 351.
Smith, Josiah D., D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., Nov. 20, 1814. He was educated in South Hanover College, Ind.. studied divinity in the South Hanover Theological Seminar\', was licensed by the Madison Presbytery and ordained by the Columbus Presbytery, O., in 1841, and installed pastor of the Truro and Hamilton churches in that state. He subsequently became pastor of the West- minster Presbyterian Church in Columbus, where he died May 29, 1863. Dr. Smith was a man of high in- tellectual worth. He published. Truth in Love: — Ser- mons (Phila. 1864), with a biographical preface by the Kev. James M. Piatt and an introduction by M. W. Ja- cobus, D.D. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1864. p. 193; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors. (J. L. S.)
Smith, Leonard, a minister of . the IMethodist E|)iscopal Church, was born in Ancaster. Wentworth Co., Canada, May 2, 1838, and joined the Church there in 1854. He was licensed to preach in 1857, and en- tered the Illinois Conference in 1860. In 1873 he was granted a supernumerary relation, and held that posi- tion until his death, Nov. 18, 1874. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, 1875, p. 133.
Smith, MattheTW, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Antrim County, near Belfast. Ireland, in 1825, where he received his early education. He studied theologv at Paisley, Scotland, and was ordained and in- stalled pastor of a Presbyterian church near Belfast in 1846. In 1850 he emigrated to America, and was stated supply for the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church at Jlilton, Pa., where he lal)ored for more than a year, and afterwards removed to Wisconsin as an As- sociate Reformed missionary. In 1854 he accepted a commission from the American Home Missionary So- ciet}', and became stated supply of the Presbyterian Church at Ceutreville, la. He died Aug. 13, 1859.
Mr. Smith was a faithful minister, attending diligently to all the duties of his calling, and endearing himself to all his people. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. Almanac, 1861, p. 164. (J. L. S.)
Smith, Miles, an English prelate, was born in the city of Hereford, and about 1568 entered Corpus Cliristi College, Oxford, but graduated at Brasenose. He af- terwards became one of the chaplains or petty canons of Christ Church, where he took his bachelor of divinity degree. In due course he was preferred to the othce of residentiary of Hereford Cathedral, was created doctor of divinity in 1594, and on Sept. 20, 1612, became bi>h- op of Gloucester. His knowledge of the Oriental lan- guages was so extraonlinary that he was employed by James I upon the translation of the Bible. He began with the tirst, and was the last man engaged upon that work, having also written the preface. For this service he was appointed bishop of Gloucester, and had leave to hold in commendam' h\s, fornher livings, viz. the preb- end of Hinton in the Cliurch of Hereford; the rectories of Upton-upon-Severn and Hartlebury, in the diocese of Worcester; and the tirst portion of Ledbury, called Over- hall. According to Willis, he died Oct. 20, but Wood says in the begimiing of November, 1624, and was buried in his own cathedral. His published works are. Sermons (Lond. 1632, fol.): — Sermon (published without his con- sent by Roljert Burhill, 1602). He was the editor of bishop Babington's works, to which he prefixed a pref- ace. See Allibone, Did. of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Biblioy, s. v. ; Chalmers, Bioy. Bid. s. v.