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EX-M^^R J. V . C^ MITH. 



er mayor of Boston, died Wednesday af ternoon at 

 Richmond, Mass., at the residence of his sister-in- 

 law, Helen C. Brown, He was born in Conway, N". 

 Hampshire, July 20, 1800; his fatnerwas Richard 

 Ransom Smith, a physician of note, and his moth- 

 er was Sarah Cumminas of Hollis, N. H. He re- 

 ceived a degree from Brown University in 1818, 

 and M.D. at Williams College in 1822, and was 

 professor of anatomy and physiology in the Berk- 

 shire Medical Institution. He married Eliza Ma- 

 ria, daughter of Sheriff Henry Clinton Brown of 

 Pittslield, Mass. He was a student in surgery un- 

 der Dr. William Ingalls. He became a member of 

 the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1824, and in 

 1823 he established the Boston Medical and Surgi- 

 cal Journal, and. was its editor for twenty years. 

 He was a man of. great industry, and had a taste for 

 varied knowledge, being the author of hooks upon 

 trees, fishes, etc., while his medical pamphlets are 

 numerous. He^was port physician of Boston from 

 1823 to 1849, having cnarge of Rainsford island 

 hospital, was a member of the legislature several 

 years, also of the school committee, and he deliv- 

 ered an oration July 4, 1835, before the citizens of 

 South Boston. He was tne editor of '-Bowen's 

 Boston News Letter," a weekly publication, for 

 two years, and his contributions' to the press were 

 very numerous. The gathering of the Song of 

 New Hampshire in Boston was mainly his 

 idea, and while he , resided in Boston he 

 was in its best s&pse an active citizen. 

 He was prominent in the days of native 

 Americanism, and to this party ne was indebt- 

 ed to his elevation to the mayoralty, which he 

 filled two years, 1854-5& Af cer his retirement trom 

 the mayoralty he took up his residence in New 

 York, where his son, Dr. Edward Smith, a gradu- 

 ate of Harvard College, had established himself 

 and still lives. During the war he went to New 

 Orleans, where his love for an active life induced 

 him to accept the position of acting assistant in- 

 spector general, with the rank of colonel, and he 

 was the chairman of a commission appointed by 

 General Banks to consider the sanitary condition 

 of the city. He went to Richmond from New 

 York a few weeks since for the benefit of his 

 health, but a complication of diseases, dropsy and 

 asthma, was the cause of his death. He willbe 

 buried in the cemetery at Pittsfield, where repose 

 the remains of his-wife, who died many years 

 ago. 



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