Smith (XVII)
JAMES FRANCIS, an Amer- Francisco, Cal. ican jurist, born in San , educated in Santa Clara in 1859. He was School and College and at Hastings Law the bar in 1881. In was admitted to of the April, 1898, he became colonel Regiment, U. S. V. With First California from it he saw service in the Philippines , 1901. Besides June, 1898, until June engagements he participating in many governor of the Island served as military of customs of Negros and as collector of the Philippine Archipelago. He was gallantry and mentioned in dispatches for -General, U. S. V., was promoted Brigadier 1901 he was associate justice in 1899. In Philippines; of the Supreme Court of the 1906 he was a member of from 1903 to secretary the Philippine Commission and for the Philippine of public instruction Islands; from 1906 to 1909 governor-general of the Philippine Islands; and since of the United States 1910 associate justice Court of Customs Appeals.
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Smith (XVIII)
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) JESSIE WILCOX, an American artist, born in Philadelphia. She was art at the educated privately and studied Arts, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine . From 1890 she was at Drexel Institute engaged as an artist and illustrator. She skill in porwas especially known for her contributed to traits of children. She most of the important magazines, and illustrated many books.
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Smith (XX)
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-operative 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 of Göttingen. He reat the University ceived 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).
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Smith (XXI)
NORA ARCHIBALD, an American author, born in Philadelphia, Pa. She was educated at Santa Barbara College, California, and for some years devoted herself to kindergarten work in connection with her sister, Kate Douglas Wiggin, afterward engaging in literary work. She wrote "The Children of the Future" (1898); "Under the Cactus Flag" (1899); "The Kindergarten in a Nutshell" (1899); "The Message of Froebel" (1900); "Three Little Marys" (1902); "Nelson, the Adventurer" (1906); "The Adventures of a Doll" (1907); "The "Doll's Calendar" (1909); "The Home- Made Kindergarten" (1912); "Old, Old Tales from the Old, Old Book" (1916); "Plays and Pantomimes for Children" (1917). Also (with Kate Douglas Wiggin) "The Story Hour" (1891); "Children's Rights" (1893); "Republic of Childhood" (3 volumes); "Froebel's Gifts" (1896); "Froebel's Occupations" (1896); "Kindergarten Principles and Practice" (1897); "Golden Numbers" (1902); "The Posy Ring" (1903); "The Fairy Ring" (1906); "Pinafore Palace” (1907); "Magic Casements" (1907); "Tales of Laughter" (1908); "Tales of Wonder" (1909); "The Talking Beasts" (1911).
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WILLIAM ALDEN, American Senator; born at Dowagiac, Mich., May 12, 1859. In 1879 he was appointed page in the Michigan House of Representatives, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practising in Grand Rapids in 1883. He was a member of the Republican State Committee in 1888. In 1895 he was elected to Congress, where he served for twelve years, and in 1907 to the Senate on the death of Russell A. Alger. He was reelected for the term 1913-1919, but declined a renomination in 1918.
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Smith College
an educational non-sectarian institution for women in Northampton, Mass.; founded in 1875; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 123; students, 2,103; president, W. A. Neilson, LL.D.
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Smith Helene
The nom-de-guerre of a trance medium who came under the observation of Professor Flournoy. Born about 1863, at the age of twenty-nine she joined a spiritualist circle and soon developed powerful mediumistic faculties. In 1894 M. Flournoy was admitted to the circle and thenceforward examined with much interest the clairvoyance and trance impersonations of Hélène. In the winter of 1894 she purported to have visited, during trance, the planet Mars, and many of her trance discourses after that date contain descriptions of Martian life-manners, dress, scenery. At length she claimed to have learned the language of the sister-planet, and this language she spoke with fluency and consistency. (See Martian Language .) Professor Flournoy however, found no evidence sufficient to justify any belief in a supernormal faculty, unless it be telepathy.
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Smith's Island
a small island of North Carolina, off the coast of New Hanover co., and at the mouth of Cape Fear river; 20 miles S. of Wilmington. Its most S. point is Cape Fear. It has a lighthouse.
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Smith, Francis Hopkinson
Francis Hopkinson (1838-), an American painter and author. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated as a mechanical engineer and has planned and supervised the construction of several important buildings. His artistic work is chiefly in water color and charcoal, his sketches of Venice being specially worthy of praise. As an author he is best known for Colonel Carter of Cartersville. Other works are A White Umbrella in Mexico, Gondola Days, The Fortunes of Oliver Horn, Colonel Carter's Christmas, and Tom Grogan.
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