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fourteen years, and was then, in 1868, elected 

 Professor of Theology ID the Reformed Pres- 

 byterian Seminary in Allegheny City, Pa., 

 accepting also pastoral charge of the First 

 Reformed Presbyterian Church in that city. 

 One of his sons is Prof. W. M. Sloane, of the 

 chair of History and Political Science in the 

 College of New Jersey, who is also editor of 

 the ' ; New Princeton Review." 



Smith, Ashbcl, an American physician, born 

 about 1803; died in Houston, Texas, Jan. 

 20, 1886. He was graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1824, and, after a medical course, 

 became a colonist in Texas, while it was. a 

 province of Mexico. He was active in all 

 the movements that led to the independence 

 of Texas and its organization as a republic, 

 and in March, 1836, when David G. Burnett 

 was appointed Provisional President, Dr. Smith 

 was selected as the diplomatic agent of the 

 republic to secure recognition from the Gov- 

 ernments of the United States, Great Britain, 

 France, and Spain. Through his efforts the 

 independence of the republic was recognized 

 by the United States, March 3, 1837, and by 

 France, Sept. 25, 1839, the latter power sign- 

 ing a treaty with him at that time. After the 

 admission of Texas into the Union of Ameri- 

 can States, he held several offices of trust and 

 responsibility. In the early part of the civil 

 war he raised the Second Texas Volunteers, and 

 led that regiment in several campaigns east of 

 the Missouri river. At the close of the war he 

 retired to his plantation on Galveston Bay, 

 and, while taking an active part in the Demo- 

 cratic State Conventions, occupied himself 

 mainly in the preparation of papers on scien- 

 tific, medical, and agricultural topics. 



Smith, Henry Clay, an American manufacturer, 

 born in 1827; died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 26, 

 1886. He was identified with the Baltimore 

 and Ohio Railroad as a stockholder and di- 

 rector for many years, was a director in the 

 Merchants' Mutual Marine Insurance Associa- 

 tion, the National Exchange Bank of Balti- 

 more, the Central Savings- Bank, the Baltimore 

 General Dispensary, and the Female House of 

 Refuge, and was Vice-President of the Board 

 of Trade. When the Shoe and Leather Board 

 of Trade was formed in 1870, Mr. Smith was 

 elected president, and was unanimously re- 

 elected for each succeeding term. He also had 

 held the office of President of the Merchants' 

 and Manufacturers' Association of Baltimore 

 from its organization. 



Smith, J. Hyatt, an American clergyman, born 

 in Saratoga, N. Y., April 10, 1824; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1886. His father, a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, gave him a thorough 

 education, and then sent him to Detroit, Mich., 

 to engage in business. There, under the 

 preaching of the elder Dr. Duffield, young 

 Smith resolved to prepare himself for the 

 ministry of the Baptist Church. He removed 

 to Albany, N. Y., and, with the double view of 

 earning his living and paying for his theologi- 



cal education, he entered a bank and worked 

 diligently at the desk until he was ready to 

 preach. In 1848 he was licensed to preach. 

 His first call was from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 where he labored until 1852, when the Second 

 Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, a new or- 

 ganization with only a dozen members, called 

 him. He held that pastorate for three years, 

 and during that time the church increased to 

 a membership of 400. It is now the Euclid 

 Avenue Baptist Church, with a fine house of 

 worship. From Cleveland he went to Buffalo, 

 N. Y., serving with the Washington Street 

 Baptist Church from 1855 till 1860, and seeing 

 the membership double in that time. His next 

 call was from the Eleventh Baptist Church in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., where he was stationed from 

 1860 till 1867, when he resigned to take the 

 pastorate of the Lee Avenue Baptist Church in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. In November, 1880, he was 

 elected a member of Congress in the Third 

 New York District, as an independent candi- 

 date, receiving 22,085 votes against 20,626 

 votes for Simeon B. Chittenden, Republican. 

 He resigned the -charge of the Lee Avenue 

 Baptist Church in September, 1881, and on 

 the expiration of his congressional term, be- 

 came pastor of the East Congregational Church 

 in Brooklyn. He was a devoted pastor, an 

 effective speaker, and an entertaining writer ; 

 his " Haren the Hermit," " Gilead," and "Open 

 Door " being especially noted. 



Stannard, George Jennison, an American soldier, 

 born in Georgia, Vt,, Oct. 20, 1820; died in 

 Washington, D. C., May 31, 1886. Between 

 the ages of fifteen and twenty he worked on 

 his father's farm in summer, and taught in a 

 district school in winter. In 1845 he became 

 a clerk in the St. Albans Foundry Company, 

 and in time was placed in charge of the busi- 

 ness. In 1860 he was admitted a member of 

 the company. Up to this time he had been 

 active in the State militia, and had become 

 colonel of the Fourth Vermont Regiment. On 

 President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, he 

 tendered the services of himself and his regi- 

 ment by telegraph ; but it was decided by the 

 State authorities and the Legislature, then in 

 special session, to organize a regiment of ten 

 companies selected from the First, Second, 

 and Fourth Regiments of the militia, under the 

 command of Col. John W. Phelps, reserving 

 Col. Stannard for the duty of organizing 

 additional regiments. In May, 1861, he organ- 

 ized the Second Vermont Volunteers, was com- 

 missioned as its lieutenant-colonel, and mus- 

 tered into the United States service at Burling- 

 ton, June 12, 1861, leaving for the field twelve 

 days later. He was with the men of the Sec- 

 ond in every march and skirmish till the latter 

 part of May, 1862, when he accepted the com- 

 mission of colonel of the Ninth Vermont Vol- 

 unteers, and was soon afterward assigned to 

 Gen. Pope's command. On March 11, 1863, 

 he was appointed brigadier-general of volun- 

 teers, and placed in command of the Second 



