Smith (WINCHELL an American)
WINCHELL, an American playwright, born at Hartford, Conn., in 1871. He was educated in the public schools of Hartford, and from 1892 to WINCHELL SMITH 1904 was on the stage. Together with Arnold Daly he produced a number of plays by George Bernard Shaw. He began the writing of plays in 1906. Among his best known plays were a dramatization of "Brewster's Millions"; "The Fortune Hunter"; "The Boomerang" (with Victor Mapes); "Lightnin'" (with Frank Bacon); etc.
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Smith (X)
SIR GEORGE ADAM, a British educator, born at Calcutta, in 1856. He was educated at the Royal High School, University, and New College, Edinburgh, and at Tübingen and Leipzig. After traveling in Egypt cypt and Syria he became assistant to the Rev. John Fraser, at Brechin, and then became Hebrew tutor at Aberdeen. He traveled again in Syria and east of the Jordan, and went back to England to teach and write. His works include: "The Book of Isaiah," "The Preaching of the Old Testament to the Age," "Historical Geography of the Holy Land," "The Twelve Prophets," "The Life of Henry Drummond," "Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament," "Syria and the Holy Land."
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GEORGE OTIS, an American geologist and public official, born at Hodgdon, Me., in 1871. He graduated from Colby College ge in 1893, and took post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. For many years he was engaged in geological work in various States of the Union, and from 1896 to 1907 was assistant geologist and geologist of the United States Geological Survey. He was director of the Survey from 1907. He was a member of many scientific societies and was the author of many papers on the economics of minerals and power resources.
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Smith (XII)
HARLAN INGERSOLL, an American scientist, born at East Saginaw, Mich., 1872. He was educated in the public schools and at the University of Michigan. In 1891 he was an assistant at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. From 1891 to 1893 he was in charge of the anthropological collections in the Museum of of the the University University of Michigan. He became in 1895 connected with the American Museum of Natural History, with which institution he served chiefly in connection with its department of archæology, becoming honorary curator of archæology in 1912. He was archæologist of the Jesup Northern Pacific Expedition and of the Geological Survey of Canada. His archæological explorations, undertaken since 1897, were devoted chiefly to British Columbia, and to other parts of Canada. He was a member of several domestic and foreign anthropological societies and wrote: "Archæology of Lytton" (1899); "Archæology of the Thompson River Religion" (1900); "Cairns of British Columbia and Washington" (1901); "Shell Heaps of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia" (1903); "Archæology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound" (1907); "Archæology of the Yakima Valley, Washington" (1910); "The Prehistoric Ethnology of a Kentucky Site" (1910).
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HENRY LOUIS, an American educator, born at Greensboro, N. C., in 1859. He was educated at Davidson College and the University of Virginia. From 1887 to 1901 he was professor of physics, and from 1901 to 1912 president of Davidson College. In 1912 he became president of Washington and Lee University. He was a lecturer on educational and scientific topics and a member of several educational and other societies.
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Smith (XIV)
HERBERT KNOX, an American lawyer, born at Chester, Mass., in 1869. He was educated at Yale Univer- 4 sity. He practiced law at Hartford, Conn., from 1895 to 1903 and again beginning with 1912. From 1900 to 1902 he was a member of the Hartford Common Council; from 1903 to 1905 a member of the Connecticut House of Repre HERBERT KNOX SMITH sentatives; from 1903 to 1907 deputy commissioner of corporations, Department of Commerce and Labor; and from 1907 to 1912 commissioner of corporations. In 1912 he was progressive candidate for governor of Connecticut. During the World War he served as a major in the Q. M. C.
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JOHN WALTER, American Senator; born at Snow Hill, Md., Feb. 5, 1845. In 1889 he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1895 acted as chairman of the Democratic State Committee. In 1899 he became a member of Congress; in 1900 was elected Governor of Mary land, serving two terms. In 1908 he was elected to the United States Senate for the term ending in 1909 and was reelected for terms 1909-1915 and 1915-1921.
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Smith (XV)
JAMES and HORACE, authors of the "Rejected Addresses" and other excellent humorous compositions; born in London, James, Feb. 10, 1775; Horace, Dec. 31, 1779. The managers of the new Drury Lane Theater, completed in 1812 to replace the burned one, offered a prize for the most suitable opening address; the result was a deluge of such ludicrous rubbish that all had to be rejected, and Byron was commissioned to write one. The brothers Smith conceived the idea of burlesquing the style of leading poets and other men of letters and public notorieties, in a set of pieces purporting to be among the real addresses but declined sent in to the committee . Ad- Hence the volume of "Rejected had reached its dresses," which by 1819 16th edition, and is a livingly familiar still. Its travesties are hardly classic caricatures so much as genuine reproducmanner of tions of the spirit as well as pubtheir subjects. Horace subsequently lished many novels and poems, ms, the best being the "Ode to known among them an after- Egyptian Mummy." James was entertainer ward a well-known diner-out, , periodical literature in and contributor to are "The his day; his best-known pieces Surnames Go Taking of Sebastopol" and " died Dec. 26, 1839; by Contraries." James Horace, July 12, 1849.
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J(AMES) ALLEN, an Ameriat Pleasant Hill, Mo., can educator, born in 1860. He was educated at the Universities of Missouri and Michigan. From professor of econom- 1895 to 1897 he was ics and sociology at Marietta College, In 1897 he became professor of Ohio. political science at the University of of the Washington, serving also as dean school since 1909. He wrote: graduate "Multiple Money Standard" (1896); "The " (1907). Spirit of American Government
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