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]S02 the collcijo cilitice was burned, tofjethcr with the lilirarifs liiniitiire, ami lixtiires i)f every (lewri|(tioii. The trustees resolved to relmild it immediately. l>r. Smith made a betr^int; t<mr tlirniii,'!! tlie Simtherii States, ami returned in tlie l.illowin^ sprint: with alxmt one hinidrt'il thmi^ijiiid dollars, wliieli, with otlu-r lilieral aid. enalilid him to aoeomplish vastly more than he had venture«l to anticipate. '•This was his crowning nehievement. He had won new honors and pained many new friends. The collejie was popular and pros- |HToiis ami numberetl two hinidred students. New buildings were soon erectetl. and several new |)rofess(irs were added to the faculty." During the wliole period of his presiilency he continued to contribute to the ele- vati<iu of the college to a position of the highest use- fulness, and ever proved himself to be one of the ablest, and most successful disciplinarians of any age. In IHTi, being t<H) much enfeebled to discharge any longer the duties of his otlice. he tendered his resignation as pres- ident and retirtMl to a place which the board of trustees jirovided for him. and there spent the remainder of ins life. He dieil. in the utmost tranquillity, Aug. 21, l«i;>. and his remains were laid by the side of his illus- trious pre<lecessors. Dr. Smith was an indefatigable student; conversant with the literature, science, ])hilos- iiphy. and [Militics <»f ancient and modern titnes; a clas- sical scholar in the highest acceptation of the phrase; And wrote and conversed in Latin with great facility and was a lirst-rate (iroso<list. As a preacher, the uni- form testimony was that his eloquence in his best days had no parallel. His superior talents as professor and principal were everywhere spoken of and acknowledged. As a man. the saintly aspect, the tran(|uil resignation, the hundile faith, the generous sympathy, the compre- liensive charity, the modest, unpretending gentleness of his whole manner, all proclaimed the Christian gen- tleman and the mature and gifted good man. The fol- Itiwing is a list of his publications: K.ssay on the Cdiises of the Varwli/ of Complexion and Fii/nre of the Unman Species, etc. (I'iiila. 17H7. Xvo; Edin. 17«8. 8vo; Lond. 1790, 8v(.; '2d ed. New IJrunswick, N. .1.. 1810, 8vo):— Sermons (Newark, N. .1., 17'.t!t, 8vo ; Lond. 1801. 8vo) :— Ln-liirin on the Evidences of the Christinn Relii/ion (Phila. IKO'.I, r2mo) : — lectures on Moral and Political Philoso- phy (^Trenton, N. J., 1812, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Comprehensive Vifip of Principles of Xatural and Revealed Relit/ion (New Brunswick. 1815,8vo). He also published a num- lier of single s<'rmons, orations, and discourses (1781- 1810). After his death a|ipeared Sermons, irilh a Brief Memoir of his Life and Wrilini/s (I'liila. l«2l. 2 vols. Hvo). .See Sprague, Annuls if the Amer. J'lilpit, iii, 3Hh-M'}; Life and Works ofj'hilip Lindslei/ (l«G(i). iii, <5.i2; Life of/h: A rchibald A lerander. p. 2G5; \ew York MeiL and Phys. Joiii-n. l«Oit; Mitchell [Dr. John], A's- any on the Causes of the I different Colors of People in Ififfeient Climates; Analer. Mat/. XV, -US; xvi, 1 ; l.'am- fuiy (Dr. Davi<l]. Hist, if the I'nitnl States. l(;o7-1808; conliinied to the treaty of (Ihent by .S. S. Smith, D.D.. LLD., and rither literary gentlemen ; Allilmne, J/ict. of Jlrit. and A mer. A iithors ; Davidson, ///.</. of the J'resb. Chnrrh in Kentucky, p. 3'J ; Thomas, Jiioy. Diet. s. v. (J. I. S.)
Smith. Samtiel TV. (\\ a minister of the IMeth- iKli-t i;piMci|.;il Cliureh. was born in Kngland in l«12, mill iHgan to preach at the age of nineteen. In Im;M he Joined the itinerant milli^try, in which he continued lo lalMir until liin death, .March Kl, IH.'jK. See .Minutes of .Innuiil Coufrrences, 18,'>8, [>. 'M,
Smith. Samuel TW. (2). a minister of the IMeih- f><^i^l K|ii«<iipal Church, was a native of Ireland, and identilie.l hiin-lf with the Wesleyan Methodists in Cork. «>n May 2.'), IM.JI. he reached (Quebec, (a., and Miorily after removed to I'oint of l.'ocks, Md., still fol- lowing Imh profeHhion of teacher. He was licensed lo prom-h in .laruiary, 18;5.^, and was received on trial into the Itallimure Conference in .March, 1838. After twen-
ty years of active service, he w.is disabled by an acci- dent, being struck by a lire-engine, and soon after died, June 7, 1859. See Minutes of A nnuul Conferences, 18G0, p. 19.
Smith, Seth, a minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, was burn in Ilristol County. Me.. Feb. 1, bsd,"), and was converted in Onondaga County, N. Y., June, 1829. He removed to Indiana in 1834, was li- censed to preach in 1837, and joined the travelling con- nection in 1838. He was a member of tlie South-east Indiana Conference, and labored faithfully until about a month previous to his death, Oct. 1, 1853. See Min- utes of .1 nnual Conferences, 1853, p. 290.
Smith, Socrates, a minister of the Presbyterian Church, was born in llenniker. N. II., Jinie It), 1814. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1842 and en- tered the Union Theological .Seminary, where he took the full course and graduated in 18-I5. He was soon thereafter ordained, and accepted a call Nov. 23, 1845, to lleardstown. III., as a stated supply. After remain- ing one year, he became a stated supply to the Panther Creek Church, III., where he retnained until 1849, and then became teacher of a classical school in (ireenviile, III. He continued in this position until 1853, when he received a commission as home missionary, and laliored at Jerseyville and Troy, III., to 1859. After this he re- signed his commission and remained without charge in Greenville, where he died in 18C9. (W. P. S.)