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560 promise on any moral question, he was yet a man of broad views and enlightened statesmanship. Though belonging to a defeated party, he was ever held in high respect by his opponents as an able, unflinching, and generous foe. See his " Corre- spondence and Miscellanies." edited with a eulogy by Rev. William V. Andrews (Xew York, 1847). .I'llin Cotton's grandson, John Cotton, diploma- tist. I), in Tivoli, N. Y., in 1810: d. in Sharon, Conn.. ^1 Nov.. 18?'.). was graduated at Vale in 1830, elected to the legislature at twenty-one years of age, and served for many terms. He was an active member of the Democratic party, and in 1856-'60 was U. S. minister to Bolivia. He was an eloquent speaker and possessed of wide infor- mation and many attractions. Cotton Mather's grandson, Thomas Mather, clergyman. b. in Stamford, Conn., 7 March, 17117: d."in Pen-Hand. Me., 6 Sept., 1864, was the son of Cotton Mather's daughter, who married Rev. Daniel Smith, pastor of the church at Stamford from 1793 until his death in 1S41. Thomas was graduated at Yale in 1816, and at Andover theological seminary in 1820. He was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church in 1822, was successively pastor in Portland, Me., Fall River, Catskill, N. Y., and Xew Bedford, Mass., in 1826-'42, and in 1*44. having changed his theological views, was or- dained in the Protestant Episcopal church. He was professor of theology in the Gatnbier (Ohio) seminary in 1845-'63, and president of Kenyon in 1850-'4. Bowdoin gave him the degree of D. D. in 1850. Thomas Mather's son. John Cotton, clergy- man, b. in Andover. Mass.. 4 Aug., 1826; d. in New York city, 10 Jan., 1882, was graduated at Bowdoin in 1847, studied theology at the Gambler (Ohio) seminary, was ordained deacon in the Prot- estant Episcopal church in 1849, and priest in 1850. He was successively rector of St. John's church, Bangor, Me., assistant on the Green foun- dation at Trinity church, Boston, ami fnun 1860 until his death was rector of the Church of the Ascension, New York city. I luring his pastorate there he was active in mission work, the church contributing under him $1,000.000 to charity. He organized the first successful attempt to establish improved tenement-houses, and was instrumental in erecting two blocks of such homes that are under the care of an association in Ascension church. He built the Mission chapel cm the corner of Jane and Greenwich streets, and that nu West 43d street, which number 3,000 pupils, and was also active in foreign mission work. He was a member of the American Bible society, and one of a committee of three to revise the received Greek text. Columbia gave him the degree of D. D. in 1862. Dr. Smith was a strong and effective preacher, a profound scholar, and of wide and Catholic views. For several years he edited the " Church and State." a paper established as the representative of the liberal branch of the church. He discussed scientific, literary, and social subjects in it and in his pulpit, and aided largely in the gathering of the church congress in New York in 1874. Dr. Smith published an " Ar- tillery Election Sermon" (Boston, 1858), and nu- merous other occasional sermons and tractates ; " Limits of Legislation as to Doctrine and Ritual " (New York, 1874) ; ' Miscellanies Old and New " (1876) ; " Briar Hill Lectures : Certain Aspects of the Church" (1880); " The Church's Mission of Reconciliation" (issi ) ; and "The Liturgy as a Basis of Union " (1881).

SMITH, Daniel, senator, b. in Fauquier coun- ty, Va., about 1740; d. in Stunner county, Tenn., .Tune, 1818. He emigrated to Tennessee at an early age, being one of the first settlers of that state, and filled many public offices. He was a major-general of militia, was appointed by Gen. Washington secretary of the territory south of Ohio river in 1790. sat in the convention that formed the constitution of Tennessee, and was U. S. senator from that state in 1798-'9, in place of An- drew Jackson, who had resigned, and again from 1805 till his own resignation in 1809. He pub- lislii-d the first map of Tennessee and a geography of the state (Philadelphia, 1799).

'''SMITH. Daniel''', clergyman, b. in Salisbury, Conn., 16 Sept., 1806 : d. inKingston, N. Y., 23 J une, 1852. He was educated at Wilbrahara academy under Rev. Wilbur Fisk, ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1831, and was a pastor in Connecticut and New York for the subsequent twenty-one years. He was active in Sun- day-school and temperance work, lectured extensive- ly iu the latter cause, and wrote more than fifty re- ligious books for the veiling. Throughout his min- istry he gave all his' salary to benevolent objects. His publications include " Anecdotes for the Young " (New York, 1840) ; " Teacher's Assistant " (1847)" Lady's Book of Anecdotes "(1851) : " Prov- erbs " ( is.'il i'; and " Lectures to Young Men" (1852).

'''SMITH. Daniel B.''', educator, b. in Philadel- phia. I'a., 14 July, 1792; d. in Germantown, Pa., 29 March, 1883. He was educated under John Griscom, from whom he acquired a fondness for srirntific studies. On leaving school, he was ap- prenticed to the drug business, and on completing his term was admitted to partnership. In 1819 he opened a drug-store, and continued thereafter in active mercantile pursuits until within a few years of his death. He was one of the founders of the Apprentices' library in 1820, and was active in the movement that led to the establishment of the Col- lege of pharmacy in 1822. In 1821 ho became sec- retary of the preliminary organization, which office he then held until his election as vice-president in 1828, and from 1829 till 1854 he was its president, also serving as chairman of the committee on publi- cation that in 1826 issued the first number of the American Journal of Pharmacy." Meanwhile, in 1834, he became professor of moral philosophy, English literature, and chemistry in Haverford school (now college), and'continued in that place until ISK;. He was influential in organizing the House of refuge in 1828, and the American phar- maceutical association in 1852, and presided over its first meeting in Philadelphia. Prof. Smith was a member of the Franklin institute from its incep- tion in 1824, of the Historical society from its or- ganization in 1825, and was its first corresponding secretary. He was also a member of the American philosophical society and of the Philadelphia acad- emv of natural sciences. He published ' The Prin- ciples of Chemistry " (Philadelphia, 1842).

SMITH, David M., inventor, b. in Hartland, Vt... in 1809 ; d. in Springfield, Vt., 10 Nov., 1881. He began to learn the carpenter's trade in Gilsura. N. H., when he was twelve years old. and seven years later taught in a school. Subsequently he began the manufacture of "awls on the haft." for which he obtained a patent in 1832. The awl-haft a- manufactured by him was similar if not identical with the one now known as the Aiken awl. In 1840-'! he represented the town of Gilsum in the New Hampshire legislature', after which he removed to Springfield, Vt. He patented a combination-look in 1849, of which an English expert named Hobbs, who had opened all the locks that were brought to him in London, said : " It cannot