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Smith (JOSEPH FIELDING a Mormon)

JOSEPH FIELDING, a Mormon apostle; born in Far West, Mo., Nov. 13, 1838; drove an ox-team in the "exodus" of 1846; worked as a manual laborer in 1848-1854, and was a missionary to the Sandwich Islands in 1854-1857. He was ordained to one of the "seventies" in 1858 and to apostleship in 1866, becoming a member of the Council of 12 in 1867.

He was several times a member of the Utah Legislature, and in 1882 presided over the Constitutional Convention which framed the constitution for the State of Utah; was director of Zion's Co-opera- SMITH tive Mercantile Institution and several other enterprises; and editor of the "Improvement Era." He succeeded Lorenzo Snow as president of the Mormon Church in October, 1901. He died in 1918.

SMITH (EDMUND) MUNROE, an American educator, born at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1854. He was educated at Amherst College, Columbia University, and at the University of Göttingen. He received honorary degrees from Columbia. Amherst and the University of Louisiana From 1880 to 1883 he was instructor and from 1883 to 1891 adjunct professor of history at Columbia University, becoming professor of Roman Law and Comparative Jurisprudence in the latter year. Begin- Juris ning with 1901 he was also a lecturer on Roman Law at the Georgetown Law School, Washington, D. C. He was an editor of the "Political Science Quarterly" and wrote: "Bismarck and German Unity" (1898); "Militarism and Statecraft" (1918).