408 AUTHENTIC HISTORY 



count. As a lawyer, even before the revolution, he was among the first of his profes- 

 sion, a rank which he continued to hold, while he practised at the bar. As a politician, 

 he was zealous, patriotic, and consistent. As a judge, he was learned and upright, 

 and vincomnionly skilful in the despatch of business. He comprehended with ease 

 causes of the greatest intricacy, and formed his decisions, which often displayed much 

 legal knowledge, with great promptness. It is to be added to his honor, that Avhile he 

 was thus distinguished abroad, he was characterized in the fulfilment of his do- 

 mestic duties, by an uncommonly kind and aftectionate disposition. 



Scott, Joshua, an Englishman, surveyor and engineer, lived for many years in Lan- 

 caster. His large map of the County, on a scale of an inch to a mile, was published 

 January 1, 1824. For science, accuracy and finish it compares favorably with the best 

 government maps of the period and the current maps of the Coast Survey, though 

 published forty years later, are not superior to it. 



Smith, Samuel Stanhope, D.D., LL.D., was born March IG, 1750, at Pequea, this 

 county, where his father, the Rev. Robert Smith, kept an academy. In his IGth year 

 he entered the Junior Class at Princeton College, and took his degree before the com- 

 pletion of his 18th year. He accepted a call of Tutor in the Department of Classics 

 and Belles Lettres, at Princeton, which he filled from 1770 to 1773. About that time he 

 was licensed to preach, and after a useful residence in Virginia, in the double capacity 

 of Pastor of a Congregation and Principal of a Seminary, he was, in 1779, elected to the 

 Chair of Moral Philosophy in Princeton College, and succeeding Dr. Witherspoon, who 

 died in 1794, in the Presidency, he held that office until 1812, when he resigned, and died 

 in 1819. In 1783 he received the degree of D.D. from Yale College, and in 1810 that of 

 LL.D. from Harvard College. He published several volumes of sermons and essays. 



Snyder, Simon, was born in Lancaster, November, 1759. He was a member of the 

 Constitutional Convention of 1790. In 1797, he was elected to the Legislature, where, 

 by successive re-elections, he served eleven years; and in 1802, was chosen Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives. In 1808, he was elected Governor of the Commonwealth, 

 which office he held nine years, having been twice re-elected. He died in 1820. 



Stevens, Thaddeus,! was born at Danville, Caledonia county, Vermont, on the 4th 

 day of April, 1792, and died at his residence in this city, at midnight, on the 11th day 

 of August, 18G8. His parents were poor, in a community where poverty was the rule 

 and wealth the exception. Of his father I know but little, save that he enlisted in the 

 war of 1812, and died in the service. Upon his mother chiefly fell the burden of rearing 

 their four sons. She was a Avoman of great energy, strong will, and deep piety. Early 

 seeing the ambition and fully sympathizing with the aspirations of her crippled boy, 

 she devotedly seconded his efibrts for the acquisition of knowledge, and by her industry, 

 energy and frugality, largely aided him in procuring a collegiate education. He returned 

 her aftection with the full strength of his strong nature ; and for many years after he 

 had acquired fame and fortune in his adopted State, had the pleasure of making an 

 annual pilgrimage to the home which he had provided for her comfort, and where she 

 dispensed, with means he furnished, a liberal charity. 



In the last year of his life, in writing his will with his own hand, while making no 

 provision for the care of his own grave, he did not forget that of his mother, but set 

 apart an ample sum for that purpose, directing yearly payments, upon the condition 

 "that the sexton keep the grave in good order, and plant roses and other cheerful flow- 

 ers at each of the four corners of said grave each spring." In the same instrument, 

 devising one thousand dollars in aid of the establishment at his home of a Baptist 

 Church, of which society his mother was an earnest member, he says; "I do this out 

 of respect to the memory of my mother,; to whom I owe whatever little of prosperity I 

 have had on earth, which, small as it is, I desire emphatically to acknowledge." 



IFrom the Eulogy of Hon. O. J. Dickey, prom >unced in the House of Uepreseiitatives at Washing 

 ton. D. C, December 17, 1868. 



