Smith (IV)
CHARLES SPENCER, an American bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, born at Colborne, Canada, in 1852. He was educated in the public schools of Canada and at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., from which institution he received the degree of M.D. in 1880. He also holds honorary degrees from Wilberforce University and Victoria College. He was ordained a minister of the A. M. E. Church in 1872; was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1874 to 1876; founded in 1882 the Sunday School Union of the A. M. E. Church, of which he was secretary and treasurer from 1882 to 1900; and was elected bishop in 1900, becoming later presiding bishop of the A. M. E. Church in Michigan, Canada, and the West Indies. He wrote "Glimpses of Africa, West and South West Coast" (1895).
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Smith (IX)
FREDERICK MADISON, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, born at Plano, Ill., in 1874. He was educated at the University of Iowa, Graceland College, University of Missouri, and University of Kansas, and holds the degree of Ph.D. from Clark University. After teaching mathematics at Graceland College, Lamoni, Ia., and being editor of a local paper, he became in 1902 first counselor of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and president in 1915. From 1908 to 1912 he was editor of the "Journal of History" and in 1917 he became editor of the "Saints' Herald." He was a member of many historical and scientific societies.
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Smith (JOSEPH the founder)
JOSEPH, the founder of the Mormons; born in Sharon, Windsor co., Vt., Dec. 23, 1805. He was revered as a prophet by his followers. His parents were poor farmers who went to Palmyra, N. Y., in the hope of bettering their condition, taking Joseph with them, about 1815. Later the family removed to Manchester in the same State. According to his own story regarding his earlier years, he worked hard on his father's farm. But the "oldest settlers" reported that the family had an aversion to hard toil of any kind and seemed inclined to lead thriftless lives, spending much time in ligging for possible hidden treasure. About 1820 Joseph claimed to be a constant witness of supernatural visions and to be gifted with a supernatural sight. He pretended that he received in 1828 a divine revelation inscribed in mysterious hieroglyphics on golden plates which were delivered to him by an angel, and that the "Book of Mormon," which he published in 1830, was translated from those golden plates. The translation was dictated by him while he sat behind a curtain as if in the society of mysterious spiritual companions. He gathered a number of converts, and as "prophet" went with them first to Kirtland, O., and afterward to Independence, Mo. See MORMONS.
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Smith (V)
DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, an American missionary, born at Waterville, Me., in 1840. 1840. He was educated at Harvard University and the Newton Theological Institution. After having been ordained a Baptist minister in 1862, he devoted himself to missionary work, becoming president of the Karen Theological Seminary at Insein, Burma, in 1876. He served until 1916, when he became president emeritus, and was also editor of the "Morning Star," a Karen monthly. He wrote "Sketch of the Life of E. A. Stevens" (1886); "Sound Principles of Interpretation" (1902); "Sermonizing and Preaching" (1904); and various Bible annotations and commentaries in the Karen language.
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Smith (VI)
ELLISON DU RANT, American Senator; born at Lynchburg, S. C., Aug. 1, 1866. In 1896 he was elected to the South Carolina Legislature. He took an active part in the organization of the Farmers' Protective Association in 1901, and was delegate to the Boll Weevil Convention at Shreveport, La., in 1905. He was elected to the United States Senate by the Democrats for the three terms from 1909 to 1927.
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Smith (VII)
FRANCIS HOPKINSON, an American painter, writer and civil engineer; born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 23, 1838. He was educated as a mechanical engineer; built the government wall round Governor's Island, one at Tompkinsville, S. I., the Race Rock lighthouse off New London, Conn., the foundation for the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World in New York harbor, etc. He won fame as a water-color artist and an illustrator, and lectured on art. Among his most popular books are: "Book of the Tile Club" (1890); "A White Umbrella in Mexico" (1889); "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" (1891); "American Illustrators" (1892); "A'Gentleman Vagabond" (1895); "Gondola Days" (1897); "Caleb Other Fellow W) (1898) (1899); "Kennedy Square" (1911); "The Arm Chair at the Inn" (1912); "In Dickens Land" (1914); "Felix O'Day" (1915). He died in 1915.
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Smith (VIII)
FREDERICK EDWIN, Baron Birkenhead, British Lord Chancellor, born at Birkenhead, England, in 1872. He was educated at Birkenhead School and Wadham College, Oxford, and was president of the Oxford Union Society in 1893. He was conservative candidate for the Scotland Division of Liverpool in 1903-4 and for the Walton Division in 1905. He was an associate of Sir Edward Carson in the opposition to Irish Home Rule, threatening to take the field, but became Solicitor-General when the European War broke out. He became Lord Chancellor in 1919. He wrote "International Law," "My American Visit."
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Smith (WILLIAM the father of English)
WILLIAM, the "father of English geology"; born in Churchill, Oxfordshire, England, March 23, 1769. Acting successively as land surveyor, mining surveyor, and canal engineer, he was led to indulge in many speculations of a geological nature. He became convinced that each stratum contained its own peculiar fossils, and might be discriminated by them, and in 1815 he was able to submit a complete colored map of the strata of England and Wales to the Society of Arts, and received the premium of $250 which had for several years been offered for such a map. His fame as an original discoverer was now secure; but becoming involved in pecuniary difficulties he was obliged to part with his geological collection to government for $3,500. Subsequently a pension was granted to him by government. He died in Northampton, England, Aug. 28, 1839.
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