Smith, Thomas (2), a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, Jlass., March Kt, 1702, graduated from Harvard in 1720, and was licensed to preach in April, 1722. On account of his youth he declined a call from the Church in Bollingham, IMass., but preach- ed in various places as a supply. On March 8, 1727, a Church was constituted at Falmouth and Mr. Smith was ordained its pastor, and continued such until 1764, when, on account of infirmity, he received Kev. Samuel Deane as his colleague, lie, however, preached in his turn till the close of 1784. His death took place May 23, 1795. The onh' pul)lications of Mr. Smith are a Sermon (1756) at the ordination of Rev. Solomon Lom- bard, and a Practical Discourse to Seafaring .tfen (1771). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 326.
Smith, Thomas (3), a Methodist Episcopal min- ister, was born in Kent County, IMd., June 3, 1776. He was converted in early life, began to preach in his eigh- teenth year, was received into the Philadelphia Confer- ence Jlay 20. 1798, and "the demonstrations which had attended Abbott's labors were repeated at almost all his appointments, and himdreds of souls were gathered into the societies." He labored as follows: Caroline Circuit, 1798; Flanders Circuit, N. J., 1799; Northampton Cir- cuit, Va., 1800-1 ; Dover, Del., 1802; Annamessex, Md., 1803; Talbot Circuit, 1804; Seneca Circuit, N. Y., 1805 ; Burlington, N. J., 1806; Asburv, N. J., 1807; Lewiston, Del., 1808; St. (Jeorge's, Philadelphia, 1809; Cecil, Md., 1810; Smyrna, Del., 1811; Kent, Md., 1812; Accomack, Va., 1813; from 1814 to 1816 he was allowed a respite on account of ill-health; Kent Circuit, 1817; New Brunswick, 1818; Kensington, 1819; Kent, 1820-21 ; su- pernumerary in 1822, in which relation he continued until his death, in May, 1844. Mr. Smith was a man of unquestioned piety, a superior pastor, and a powerful preacher. He preached " with the utmost brevity, but with the utmost power." He possessed a faith admira- ble in its earnestness and sublime in its power. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, iii, 595 ; Experience and Ministerial Labors of the Rev. Thomas Smith, edited by the Eev. David Dailv (N. Y. 1848); Stevens, Hist, of the M. E. Church, iii, 379, 415; iv, 269. (J. L. S.)
Smith, Thomas (4), a Congregational minister, was born in Litchfield, Me., Aug. 17, 1812. Converted at the age of twenty-one, he set out to prepare himself for the ministry, and, by his own exertions prepared for college, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1840, and at Bangor The(»logical Seminary in 1843. He preached in Maine at Cherrytiehl and Orrington, and in 1849 be- came pastor of Brewer Village, where he continued un- til his death, April 7, 1861. Mr. Smith was pre-emi- nently excellent as a pastor, and was much beloved by his people. He was much attached to his work, and pursued his objects with unconquerable energy. See Congregational (luarterly, 1861, p. 376.
Smith, Thomas C, a Methodist Episcopal min- ister, w-as born Jan. 1, 1807, embraced religion in 1824, was admitted on trial in the South Carolina Conference Feb. 11, 1828, and appointed to Washington Circuit, Ga. ; Reedy River Circuit in 1828; received into full connection in 1830, and sent to Morganton Circuit; Cooper River Circuit in 1831-32; supernumerary on Lancaster Circuit in 1833; returned effective and ap- pointed to Lincolnton Circuit in 1834: superannuated in 1835, in which relation he continued until his death, Nov. 27. 1837. As a minister he possessed good preach- ing abilities, and was much beloved by those with whom he labored. See Minutes of Ann. Conf. ii, 575.
Smith, Thomas G., a Dutch Reformed minister, was born in Scotland in 1756, came to America in 1774, and enlisted actively in the cause of American indepen- dence. After the Revolutionary war he studied for the ministry under Dr. John Mason, and obtained license to preach in 1791 from the Associate Reformed Church. His ministry covered the period of forty-six years, dur- ing most of which (1808 to 1837) he was pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Tarrytown, N. Y. He had previously been settled in the Associate Reformed Church in Orange County, and then in Ulster County, in the churches of Esopus, Bloomingdale, and Hurley. He was always a favorite preacher, popular in manner, evangelical in spirit, and Calvinistic in creed, and in the pid|)it was ]iartieularly practical and experimental. He possessed a sound mind in a soinid body, and a warm heart with a vigorous intellect. His ministry was dis- criminating, and in every respect useful and honored. See Corwin, Manual of the Reformed Church, p. 219, 220. (W. J. R. T.)
Smith, Turner H., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch. South, was born in Buncombe Coun- ty, N. C, May 15, 1818, and moved to Missouri iu 1833,
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He united with the Church in ISHO. was licensed to preach in IHA>'>. and entered the St. I^mis 0>nfercnce in 1851, lie was ordained deacon Oct. 1. l*to4; and elder Oct. 12, 1K.J4). He died April -JO, l«o7. .See Miiiiilex oj' Annual Conftrenns of the M. K. Church, South, 1857, p. 744.
Smith (or Smyth). "William (\\ an Enf;li.sh jirclalc. w.is a n.'iliw nt" UnK;i>liiri'. iuul l>orn atHHit tlie iniddlc of the l.'xli century. He took his LL.H. dei^ree at Oxford In-fore 14".»'J. when he was presented to the rectory »>f Cheshinit, llertfonlshire, by the countess of Richmond. Previous to this (Sept. '20, 14H5) he was ap|H)inted clerk of the hanaper, and a few years after was promoted to the deanery of St. Stephen's. Westmin- ster. In 14'.>3 he was consecrated l)i>hop of I.ioliliild ami Coventry. lie was shortly afterwards made presi- dent of the prince's council within the marches of Wales. There was a renewal of this commission in theseven- tet-nth year of Henry VII, of which Smith was a^ain lord-president. In 1405 he rebuilt the hosjiital of St. John, Lichtield, and gave a new body of statutes for ihe use of the society. Hishop Smith was transhited to the see of Lincoln in November, 14',I5. In 15110 he was electeil chancellor of Oxford, and in 1507-8 he con- certed the plan of llrasenose College, along witli his frieiul Sir Kichard Sutton, and lived to see it completed. He diwi at Huckden, .Ian. 2, 1513 (1514), and was in- tem'il in Lincoln Cathedral. See Churton, Lires of the J-'oii III lent: Chalmers, ///.</. of Orford; Iluok, Eccks. Jii'if/. : Chalmers, /ii'if/, iJict. s. v.