210 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



JACOB PAINTER. 



Jacob Painter was born June 22, 1814, near ]\Iedia, 

 Pennsylvania, and was educated at a school in Troy, New 

 York, about 1836. After graduating there, he journeyed to 

 Chicago by stage, returning to his home in Delaware 

 County by the national road to Washington. He lived 

 with his brother, Minshall, and together they planted an 

 arboretum, containing later a number of fine specimens. 

 Jacob, after the death of his brother in 1875, went to Florida, 

 enjoying the trip so much that he never ceased talking of 

 it until his death, which occurred November 3, 1876.* 



AUBREY H. SMITH. 



Aubrey H. Smith, son of Thomas Smith, a member of 

 Congress and United States Senator, who had an estate of 

 3000 acres at Tinicum, where the quarantine station now 

 stands, was born at this place in 1815. He studied law 

 in the office of his brother, Israel Taylor Smith, and 

 practiced at the Philadelphia bar. ^Ir. Smith was counsel 

 for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He was a 

 friend of General Grant, and during the first presidential term 

 of the latter he was United States District Attorney. Mr. 

 Smith was an active botanist, having collected extensively 

 and formed an excellent and extensive herbarium, which 

 was presented to the Biological School of the University of 

 Pennsylvania after his decease. He presented to the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences many interesting 

 botanical communications, having been elected to that body 

 March, 1876. One communication, in particular, is especially 

 noteworthy — " On the Colonies of Plants observed near Phila- 



* See sketch of Minshall Painter, his brother, page 181. 



