Smith (ALFRED H an American railway)
ALFRED H., an American railway official. He entered the service of the L. S. and M. S. Ry. at Cleveland as a messenger boy in 1879, rising gradually to the position of general superintendent in 1901. In 1902 he became connected with the N. Y. C. and H. R. RR. as general superintendent, becoming general manager in 1903, vice-president in 1906, senior vice -president in 1913, and president of the N. Y. Central Lines in 1914. During the World War he was assistant director-general of charge of transportation in the trunk line railroads in territory E. of Chicago and N. of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and later regional director of the eastern district. At the end of his service with the Federal Government he was re-elected of the N. Y. Central Lines on June 1, 1919. president
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Smith (CHARLES an American journalist)
CHARLES an American journalist; born in Mansfield, EMORY, Conn., Feb. 18, 1824; was graduated at Union College in 1861; edited the Albany "Express" in 1865-1870 -1870 , came editor of the Philadelphia "Press and in 1880 be- He was United States minister to Russia ." in 1890-1892; a delegate to several National Republican conventions; and postmaster-general , 1898-1901, then resuming the the editorship e of the Philadelphia "Press" He died Jan. 19, 1908.
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Smith (EDGAR FAHS an American chemist)
EDGAR FAHS, an American chemist and educator, born in York, Pa., Pa., in 1856. He graduated from Pennsylvania College in 1874 and took post-graduate studies in Germany. For several years he served as instructor at the University of Pennsylvania and as professor at Muhlenberg and Wittenberg colleges. From 1888 to 1911 he was professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed vice-provost of the University in 1899, and provost in 1911, retiring in 1920. He was president of the American Chemical Society, and was a member of other scientific societies. He wrote many books on chemical subjects, including "Theories of Chemistry" (1913); "Chemistry in America" (1914); "Chemistry in Old Philadelphia" (1918), and "James Cutbush" (1919).
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Smith (GEORGE an English)
GEORGE, an English Assyriologist; born in London, England, March 26, 1840. The importance of his contributions to our knowledge of Assyrian history and inscriptions is everywhere acknowledged. Part of his published works are: "The Chaldean Account of Genesis"; "Assyria from the Earliest Times Till the Fall of Nineveh" (1875); "Assyrian Discoveries" (1875), an account of his own travels and researches; "The Assyrian Eponym Canon" (1875); "History of Babylonia," edited by A. H. Sayce (1877); "History of Sennacherib," edited by A. H. Sayce (1878). He died in Aleppo, Aug. 19, 1876.
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Smith (GERRIT an American phi)
GERRIT, an American phi lanthropist; born in Utica, N. Y., March 6, 1797; was graduated at Hamilton College in 1818; studied law; and took up his residence at Peterboro, Madison co., N. Y., devoting himself to the care of a vast landed estate in Central and Northern New York left him by his father. He joined and liberally contributed to the American Colonization Society in 1825, but withdrew from it in 1835, then becoming a member of the Anti-Slavery Society. He gave pecuniary aid to John Brown, in whose affair at Harper's Ferry, he, however, it is thought, had no part. He was nominated for governor of New York in 1840 and in 1858; was a member of Congress in 1853-1854, but resigned after one session; with Horace Greeley he signed the bail bond of Jefferson Davis in 1867. He was an earnest advocate of temperance and a supporter of a number of reforms. He built a non-sectarian church at Peterboro, in which he occasionally He published preached. "Speeches in Congress" (1855); "Sermons and Speeches" (1861); "The Religion of Reason" (1864); ; "The Theologies" (1866); and "Nature the Base of a Free Theology" (1867). He died in New York City, Dec. 28, 1874.
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Smith (GOLDWIN an English historian)
GOLDWIN, an English historian; born in Reading, England, Aug. 13, 1823; was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he graduated first-class in classics in 1845 and became a fellow of University College in 1847. He also held the post of Regius Professor of History in the university from 1858 to 1868. As a lecturer he attracted great attention both on account of his strongly democratic views and his striking originality. Having during the American Civil War strongly defended the cause of the North, he was at the close of the war invited to visit the States to deliver a course of lectures, and his visit resulted in his becoming Professor of History at Cornell Uni- He resigned the versity, New York. appointment in 1871, and was appointed member of the senate of the University of Toronto, where he afterward resided. Among his chief works are: "Lectures on Modern History" (1866); "The Empire," a series of letters (1863); "Speeches and Letters on the Rebellion" (1865); "Three English Statesmen" (Pym, Cromwell, and Pitt) (1867); "A Short History of England Down to the Reformation" (1869); "A History of the United States" (1893); "Essays on Questions of the Day" (1894); "Guesses at the Riddle of Existence" (1896); "The United States: an Outline of Political History" (1899); "My Memory of Gladstone" (1905); "No Refuge but in Truth" (1909). He died June 7, 1910. Vol 8 DD-Cyc
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Smith (HOKE a United States Senator)
HOKE, a United States Senator from Georgia, born at Newton, N. C., in 1855. He was privately educated and removed with his parents to Georgia in 1872. In the following year he was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Atlanta until 1909, except while serving as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Cleveland, from 1893 to 1896. He was governor of Georgia from 1907 to 1909, and was re-elected for the term 1911 to 1913. He resigned as governor to enter the United States Senate, having been elected to fill the unexpired term of Alexander S. Clay, deceased. He was reelected for the term of 1915 to 1921, but was defeated by Thomas E. Watson in 1920.
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Smith (III)
CHARLES HENRY, pseudo nym, "Bill Arp," an American humorist; born in Lawrenceville, Ga., June 15, 1826; was graduated at Franklin College, Athgraduated ens, Ga Ga., in 1848; 184 studied law and practiced in Rome, Ga., for 27 years, afterward removing to Cartersville; served in the Confederate army in 1861-1865, becoming major on staff of 3d Georgia Brigade. His literary career began (1861) in a series of letters under his pseudonym. His publications include: "Bill Arp's Scrap Book" (1886); "The Farm and the Fireside," and "Georgia as a Colony and State, 1733-1893." Died 1903.
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