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NAME SMITH 1068 SMITH and the appointment was renewed by popular vote for five succeeding years. Dr. Smith was the first superintendent of Delaware county public schools (1854) and was president of the school board of Upper Darby school district for twenty-five years. He was one of the founders of the Delaware County Institute of Science and its president from its organization until his death — a period of forty-nine years ; he presented the institute with his herbarium. In 1862 he published the "History of Dela- ware County," an unquestionable authority on the matters to which it relates and acknowl- edged to have no superior among local his- tories of Pennsylvania; he was a frequent con- tributor of scientific and historical papers to the periodicals of his neighborhood. George Smith published an instructive sketch of the geology of Delaware County and "a copious catalogue of the plants of the same. This list, carefully prepared, is the monument of Dr. Smith's energy and interest in botanical science" (Harshberger). He was elected mem- ber of the American Philosophical Society in January, 1863. In 1829 he married Mary, only child of Abraham Lewis, of Delaware County; they had eight children, one of whom was Clement Lawrence Smith, tutor and professor of Latin and dean of the college faculty at Harvard from 1870 to 1902. Dr. Smith died at Upper Darby, March 10, 1882. EwiNG Jordan. Penna. Mag. of History and Biography, vol. vi.. 182, Memoir by James J. Levict:, M. D. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog.. N. Y., 1888. Lamb's Biog. Dictny. of the U. S. (in the sketch of Clement Lawrence Smith"). Botanists of Philadelphia, John W. Harshberger, Phila., 1899. Smith, Henry Hollingsworth (1815-1890) Henry H. Smith was born in Philadelphia, December 10, 1815, and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, taking an A. B. in 1834 and A. M. and M. D. in 1837. He ser-ed afterwards as resident physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital for two years, after which he studied abroad, finally settling in Philadelphia to practise in 1841. He was one of the surgeons to the St. Joseph's Hospital, Episcopal Hospital and the Philadelphia Hos- pital (Blockley), also professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1871, when he became professor emeritus, but jn 1861, on the outbreak of the Civil War, was appointed to organize the hospital department of Pennsylvania with the title of surgeon- j general of Pennsylvania. At the first battle o.f Winchester, Virginia, he originated the plan of removing the wounded from the battlefield to large hospitals in Reading, Philadelphia, Harrisburg and other large cities, and established the custom of embalming the dead on the battle ground. He organized and directed a corps of surgeons with steamers as floating hospitals at the siege of Yorktown, and served the wounded after the battles of Williamsburg, West Point, Fair Oaks, Cold Harbor and Antietam. After thoroughly organizing the department of which he was in charge, he resigned his com- mission in 1862, In 1883 he was elected presi- dent of the State Medical Society. Dr. Smith was the author of many im- portant medical publications, which include "An Anatomical Atlas," to illustrate William E. Horner's "Special Anatomy" (Philadel- phia, 1843); "Minor Surgery" (1846); "Sys- tem of Operative Surgery, with a Biographical Index to the Writings and Operations of American Surgeons for 234 Years" (2 vols., 1852) ; "The Treatment of Disunited Frac- tures by Means of Artificial Limbs" (1855) ; "Professional Visit to London and Paris" (1855); "Practice of Surgery" (2 vols., 1857- 63) ; and numerous surgical articles in medical journals. He translated from the French "Civiale's Treatise on the Medical and Prophy- lactic Treatment of Stone and Gravel" (Phila- delphia, 1841); and edited the "United States Dissector" (1844) and "Spencer Thompson's Domestic Medicine and Surgery" (1853). In October, 1843, he married Mary Ed- monds, eldest daughter of Prof. William E. Horner, who had been his preceptor in the study of medicine. He died April 11, 1890. Francis R. Pack.'Vrd. Trans. Phila. Co. Med. Soc, 1890. Med. News, Phila., 1890. Med, Rec., N. Y., 1890. vol. xxxvii. A Memoir of H. H. Smith by B. Lee, Phila., 1890. Smith, James (1771-1841) He was born at Elkton, Cecil County, Mary- land, in 1771. He was A. B., Dickinson Col- lege, 1792, and A. M., 1795, and a pupil of Dr. Rush. He attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a founder and attending physician of the Balti- more General Dispensary, 1801-1807; on March 25, 1802, he opened a private vaccine institute in Baltimore; in 1809 became state vaccine agent, and in 1813 United States vaccine agent. He held this position until 1822, when the office was abolished. He edited The Vaccine Inquirer, 1822, and was treasurer of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Mary-