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grammar school, at the Falls of Schuylkill, with whom he remained 

 until he was ten years of age. He and his brother, Samuel Wemyss 

 Smith, were for some years under the care of a private tutor by the 

 name of Sanderson,* whom their father, William Moore Smith, Esq., 

 had found reading the classics in the original upon one of his annual 

 tours up the Juniata. He took a fancy to him, and brought him to 

 Philadelphia as the tutor and companion of his two sons above 

 mentioned. 



When Mr. Neif quit his school these boys were sent to one at Mount 

 Airy, kept by Mr. John T. Carre. After some years spent at Mount 

 Airy, Mr. Smith went to Huntingdon, Pa., and was placed under the 

 care of the Rev. John Johnson, a Presbyterian clergyman, who had 

 there established a school, and was for many years well known as a 

 successful teacher of the Greek and Latin languages. In 18 18 he re- 

 turned to Philadelphia and entered the office of William Rawlc, Esq., 

 to study the law. His fellow-students in the office were David Paul 



*John Sanderson, who was born in Carlisle in 1783, studied the classics with a 

 clergyman living some six or seven miles from his home, and in i£o6 came to Phila- 

 delphia as private tutor to the children of William Moore Smith. In 1808 he became 

 a teacher in Clermont Seminary, which was established near Frankford, the Principal 

 of which was John T. Carre. Afterward Sanderson married a daughter of Mr. Carre's, 

 and became a partner in the management of the school. He was a contributor to the 

 Fortfolio. While residing in the family of Mr. Smith he designed " The Lives of the 

 Signers of the Declaration of Independence," which was the first attempt to combine 

 their biographies. The first and second volumes of this book were written by John 

 Sanderson, assisted by his pupils. The life of Ilopkinson was written by Richard 

 Penn Smith, and that of Chancellor Wythe by William Rudulph Smith ; but the work 

 was not published until 1S20. The remaining seven volumes are attributed to Robeit 

 Wain, Jr., Henry Dilworth Gilpin, and others. Mr. Sanderson published, in 1826, 

 " Remarks on the Plan of a College to Exclude the Latin and Greek Languages." 

 His views were adverse to the establishment of such an institution. After the death 

 of Stephen Girard he advocated, in accordance with those opinions, the introduction 

 of the languages in the course of studies at Girard College. These arguments were 

 enforced through the medium of the press, in a series of letters signed " Roberjot." 

 He went to Paris in 1835, and remained there one year. His impressions were given 

 to the world in " Sketches of Paris, in Familiar Letters to his Friends, by an Anvvican 

 Gentleman. Two volumes. 1S3S; " "The American in Paris. Two volumes. 183S." 

 These are light, agreeable, and abounding in wit and humor. Theodore Hook sug- 

 gested the publication of this book in England. Jules Janin translated it into French, 

 and it was published in 1843. He commenced a work to l)e entitled " The American 

 in Paris," portions of which were published in the Knickerbocker Magazine. Upon 

 his return to Philadelphia he opened a private school, and when the High School was 

 established he was Professor of Greek and Latin. The writer was long his pupil. He 

 died in 1844. 



