SMITH-SMITH COLLEGE. 



tion, and his oratorical powers were enlisted in favor 

 of Congress. Yet at the close of the war a factious 

 opposition was made against him, and the legislature 

 chartered the University of Pennsylvania to SUJHT- 

 sede the college. Smith resisted, and in 1789 was 

 again recognized as provost of the college. In IT'.'l 

 a compromise was effected, the college was merged 

 in the university, but Dr. Smith retired from office. 

 He died at Philadelphia, May It, 1803. His publi- 

 cations comprise various sermons and orations, some 

 political tracts, and a history of llouquefs Exjieditiun 

 ./ ii'uxf the Wetter* Indians. A selection of these 

 was published in 1803. 



His grandson, RICHARD Pus* SMITH (1790-1854), 

 obtained some note as a dramatist. He was born in 

 March, 1799, and admitted to the Philadelphia bar 

 in 1821. He edited the Ai(rnr<i for the nest six 

 years and then wrote for Edwin Forrest two n . 

 dies, < '<ii us Muriui and Tlie Venetian. Besides 

 other successful plays, he wrote some novels and a 

 Lift of David Crockett (is;tc,). He died, Aug. 1'J, 

 1. His son, Horace Wemyss Smith, born in 

 1--'.'), has edited his Work*, written & Life of Will- 

 i'im Smith (4 vols.), and compiled Patriotic Songs if 

 A mericn. 



Another grandson, William Rndolph Smith (1787- ' 

 1868), went to Wisconsin in 1837, and became at- 

 torney-general of that State in 1853. He was also 

 president of its Historical Society and published 

 History of Wisconsin. (4 vols., 1854). 



SMITH, WILLIAM, lias been highly successful in 

 uniting the labors of scholars in his dictionaries of 

 biblical, classical, and early Christian literature. 

 He was born in London in 1813, and graduated at 

 ils university, being a layman and originally a Dis- 

 senter, though he afterward entered the Church of 

 England. From 1853 to 18G9 he was classical ex- 

 aminer for London University, and afterward a mem- 

 ber of its senate. Since 1807 ho has been editor of 

 the Quarterly Review. His chief Dictionaries are : 

 those of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1840-42) ; 

 Greet and Roman Biography (1843-49) ; Dictunxiri/ 

 of the Bible (3 vols., 1860-63)", the American edition 

 being enlarged and improved by Profs. H. B. 

 Hackett and E. Abbot (4 vols., 1869-70) ; Christian 

 Antiquities (% vula., 1875-80), in which Prof. Cheetham 

 assisted ; and Christian Biography (4 vols., 1877 E 

 in which Dr. Henry Wace assisted. The last t\\o 

 works come down only to the age of Charlemagne. 

 Dr. Smith's son Philip has been associated with him in 

 the preparation of the numerous works of refer* 

 above mentioned, and has published a llutary nf the 

 IfonU, 



SMITH, Wn,LUM FARBAR, a general of the civil 

 war, and known in the army as " Baldy " Smith, 

 was born in St. Albans, Vt., Feb. 17, 1834 Ho 

 graduated at West Point in 1S4">, was made brevet 

 21 lientemint of topographical engineers, and, after 

 a year's service in this department, became assistant - 



Erofessor of mathematics at West Point, which post 

 ' filled for two years. His next (service was in : 

 Texas for the Mexican boundary commission and in 

 Florida till, in 1855, he was reinstated in his former 

 office at West Point, being then 1st lieutenant. In 

 1856 ho was assigned to light-house construction 

 service, and in 1859 was made engineer-secretary of 

 the Light-house board. In June and July, 1861, 

 he served on the staff of Gen. B. F. Butler at 

 Fortress Monroe, and then became colonel of the 

 8d Vermont Volunteers. He was engaged in the 

 first battle of Bull Rnn on the staff of Gen. Mc- 

 Dowell. Commissioned, Aug. 13, brigadier-' 

 of volunteers, he continued to serve on the defences 

 of Washington till March, l.HC.j. In McClellan's 

 Peninsular campaign he was biwetted lieutenant- 

 colonel in the regular army for gallant and meritori- 

 ous service at the battle of White Oak Swamp, and 



had taken part also in the siege of Yorktown, ami 

 the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Savage 

 Station, Glendale, and Malvern Hill. In July, 1862, 

 he was advanced to major-general of volunteers, but 

 this promotion was not confirmed by the Senate. 

 In the Maryland campaign he led his division in the 

 battles of South Mountain and Antietam, receiving 

 the brevet of colonel in the regular army for tho 

 latter engagement. In November, 1862, he wan as- 

 signed to the command of the Sixth Corps and took 

 part in the battle of Fredericksburg. In February, 

 1863, he was transferred to the Ninth Corps and, on 

 March 3, became major in the Corps of Enr 

 In June and July, 1863, he commanded a division 

 of the Department of the Susquehanna ; in October, 

 became chief engineer of the Department of the 

 Cumberland, and, in November, of the military divi- 

 sion of the Mississippi. In October he directed tho 

 throwing of a pontoon-bridge over the Tennessee at 

 Brown's Ferry, below Chattanooga, and the capture of 

 the heights above it, and participated in the buttle of 

 Missionary Ridge. Of his sen-ices here Gen. I . 

 H. Thomas, in his report, says : " To Brig.-Ger.. \V. 

 F. Smith should be accorded great praise for the 

 ingenuity which conceived and the ability which 

 executed the movement at Brown's Ferry. When 

 the bridge was thrown at Brown's Ferry, on tho 

 morning of the 27th Oct., 1863, the surprise was as 

 great to the army within Chattanooga as it was to 

 the army besieging it from without." In April, 1865, 

 tho Honse committee on mil itary affairs unanimously 

 agreed to a report that, " as a subordinate, Gen. 

 William F. Smith had saved the army of the Cum- 

 berland from capture, and afterward directed it to 

 victory." In March, 1864, his rank as major-general 

 of volunteers was confirmed, and in May he was placed 

 in command of tho Eighteenth Corps, which he led 

 at Cold Harbor and at Petersbnrg till July, when l.o 

 was assigned to special duty. On March 13, ]si'.">, 

 he was brevetted brigadier-general of the U. S. army 

 for his services at the battle of Chattanooga, and 

 major-general for services in the field during tho 

 war. In November, 1865, he resigned his volunteer 

 commission, and, in 18(i7, that in the U. S. army. 

 In 1865 he became president of tho International 

 Telegraph Company ; in 1875, police-commissioner 

 of New York City, and soon thereafter was c 1 

 president of the board. Since 1881 he has practised 

 as a civil engineer. 



SMITH, WIM.IAM ROBERTSON, British theologian, 

 was born atKeig, Scotland, Nov. 8, 1846. He grad- 

 uated at Aberdeen University in 1865, and studied 

 also at the Universities of Bonn and Got tin gen. In 

 1868 he began to teach physics at Edinburgh, but 

 he was already noted for his acquaintance with 

 Oriental languages, and in 1870 was made professor 

 of Hebrew in the Free Church College at Aberdeen. 

 His course of instruction roused some opposition by 

 its rationalistic tendency, and this was brought to a 

 height on the publication of his article on the Biblo 

 in the KNCYCIJOPJKDIA BRITANNICA. A series of trials 

 in the Church courts for heresy ensued and, though he 

 was not convicted, he was suspended from teaching, 

 and finally removed from his professorship in 1881. 

 The controversy iiad not prevented his contributing 

 other articles of a similar kind, and he now liccaiiic 

 associate editor of the BKITANNK'A. In 1883 he was 

 made Lord Almoner's professor of Arabic in Cam- 

 bridge University, and in 1886 librarian to that uni- 

 versity. His separate publications are The Old Testa- 

 ment in the Jewish Church (1881) ; The I'rophrts of 

 hnif.l (1882) ; and Kinship and Marriage in Early 



SMITH COLLEGE, an institution for the higher 

 education of women, was founded by Miss Sophia 

 Smith, of Haifi"ld, Mass., who bequeathed the bulk 

 of her property for that purpose ; stated the char- 



