THE AMERICAN 



MONTHLY 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL 



Vol.. XVIII. AUGUST, 1896. No. 8 



Professor Charles Wesley Smiley. 



BY RENR SAMSON. 

 (with frontispiece;.) 



For some time this Journal has been publishing the 

 portraits and autobiographies of prominent writers 

 whose articles appear from time to time in these pages. 

 AVe take advantage of Mr. Smiley's four months' absence 

 in Europe to add a sketch of his life to the list. 



Professor Charles Wesley Smiley was born September 

 10, 1846,at Fitchburg, Mass. He attended Fitchburg 

 High School, Wilbraham Academy, Vermont Conference 

 Academy, Montpelier, Vt., Fort Edward Collegiate In- 

 stitute. In 1874 he graduated from the Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity with all the honors. 



He afterwards taught in Centenary Collegiate Insti- 

 tute, Hackettstown, N. J., in Drew Seminary and Female 

 College, Carmel, N. Y. 



In 1877, leaving teaching for literary work and Psi 

 Upsilon fraternity work, he remained at Madison, N. J. 

 During two years there he published "Songs of the Psi 

 Upsilon Fraternity," Record of the Forty-fourth Annual 

 Convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity," "The Oration 

 and Poem of the Forty-fourth Convention," "Record of 

 the Forty-fifth Annual Convention" of the same, and 

 also of the Forty-sixth and the Forty-seventh, and 

 "Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity." 



These two years of editorial work brought him into 



