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564 perintendent. and professor of mathematics and moral and political philosophy, in which office he continued. He was appointed colonel of a Vir- ginia regiment soon after the beginning of the civil war. and was stationed at Norfolk and in com- mand of the fort at Craney Island. During the campaigns against Richmond in 1864. with his corps of cadets he aided in its defence, and was subsequently transferred to Lynchburg to protect that city against the National forces under Gen. I>avid Hunter. The institute buildings having been destroyed by fire during the war, he took active measures to reconstruct them when he re- turned to his duties there in 1865, and subsequent- ly he successfully administered its affairs. William and Mary gave 'him the degree of LL. D. in 1878. He published, with Robert M. T. Duke, a series of arithmetics (New York, 1845): a series of algebras (1848) ; and was the author of " The Best Methods of conducting Common Schools " (1849) ; " College Reform " (1850) ; and a " Report to the Legislature of Virginia on Scientific Education in Europe" (is.y.i). He translated Biot's "Analytical Geome- try " from the French (1840).

SMITH, Francis Houkinson. artist. IP. in Bal- timore, Md., 23 Oct., 1838. He is by profession ;m engineer, and has built a large number of public works, many of them under contract with the U. S. government. These include the Race Rock light- house off New London harbor. Long Island sound (1871-'7); Block Island breakwater (1879). He is well known as an artist, and has produced some very effective work in water-colors and charcoal. Among his water-colors are "In the Darkling Wood 15 (1876) ; iVugotty on the Harlem "(1881); " Under the Towers. Brooklyn Bridge " (1883) : " In the North Woods " (1884 1 : and " A January Thaw " (lss7). lie has been occupied also in book and niau'ii/iiii' illu-l ration, and he is known as an author by his books " Well-worn Road- " ( Boston, 1886); "Old Lines in New Black and Whit.'" (18811); and " A Book of the Tile Club " (1887), partly illus- trated by himself. His latest work is "Gondola Davs." illustrated by the author I Boston. Is!i7i.

SMITH, Francis Osmond Jon, congressman, b. in Brentwood, N. H., 23 Nov., isnii; d. in Deer- ing, Me.. 14 < i.t.. 1876. He was educated at Phillips Exeter academy, admitted to the bar, and practised in Portland. He was a member of the legislature in 1832, president of the state senate in 1833, and sat in congress from December of the latter year till 1839, having been chosen as a Whig. During his later life he was connected with many local and national improvements, was instrumental in estab- lishing the Portland gas company, and the York and Cumberland and Portland and Oxford Central railroads, the latter having been mainly built by him. But his greatest public service was the intro- duction of the Morse electric telegraph, which owes much of its success to his labor. He published "Reports of Decisions in the Circuit Courts-Mar- tial of Maine" (Portland, 1831); "Laws of the State of Maine" (2 vols., 1834); and "Secret Cor- responding Vocabulary : Adopted for Use to Morse's Electro-Magnetic Telegraph " (1845).

SMITH, Frank, Canadian senator, b. in Rich Hill, Armagh, Ireland, in 1822. He accompanied his father to Canada in 1832, and settled near Toronto. He was engaged in business in London. Ont., from 1849 till 1867, when he removed to Toronto, and there continued the business of a wholesale grocer. He was mayor of the city of London in 1866, and is president or director of several financial or industrial institutions. Mr. Smith became a member of the Canadian senate in February, 1871, and of the Dominion cabinet, with- out a portfolio, from 1882 to 1896. when he resigned. He was knighted in 1895.

'''SMITH. Frank Hill''', artist, b. in Boston, Ma--.. 15 Oct.. 1842. He studied architecture in his native city with Hnmmatt Billings, later be- came a pupil at the- Atelier Suisse, Paris, and stud- ied painting also under Leon Bonnat. His work in oil includes portraits, figure-pieces, and landscape-. Some of his Venetian pictures belong to the Som- erset club, Boston. In the course of his studies in Europe lie gave much attention to interior decora- tion, making many sketches of famous interiors. Of late years he has devoted himself especially to this branch of art. He has decorated the Windsor hotel and the opera-house at Holyoke, Mass., and numerous public and private buildings in Boston and Cambridge and other cities. Mr. Smith has been a director of the school of the Boston mu- seum of fine arts.

'''SMITH. George''', historian, b. in Delaware county, Pa.. 12 Feb.. 1804; d. in Upper D.-ii-by, Delaware co., Pa., 10 March, 1882. His father, licnjaniin, was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1801-'4, and held several minor offices of trust in his county. George was graduated at the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania in 1826, but retired from practice after five years, and served in the state senate in 1832-'6. He was an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Delaware county from the latter date till 1857, and was re-elected in 1861 for a term of five years. He was chosen the first superintendent of the Delaware county common schools in 1854, and for the subsequent twenty-five years was president of t In- school board of Upper Darby school di-l rict. He also devoted much attention to scientific pur- suits, especially to geology. Dr. Smith was a founder of the Delaware county institute of science, and its president from 1833 until his death, pre- senting it with his valuable herbarium about 1875. He was also an honorary member of the Pennsyl- vania historical society, and a contributor on historical and scientific subjects to the press. He published several essays and "A History of Delaware ( 'ounty, Pa., from the Discovery of the Territory included within its Limits to the Present Time" (Philadelphia, 18G2). His son, Clement Lawrence, educator, b. in Delaware county, Pa., 13 April, 1844, was graduated at Haverford college, Pa., in 1860, and at Harvard in 1863. He was assistant professor of classics and mathematics at Haverford in 1863-'o, student of classical phi- lology at Gottingen for one year in 1865-'6, travelled a year (1866-'7) in England and on the continent, about half of the time being spent in study and travel in Italy and Greece; then, after two years' study at home, assisted in the organization of Swarthmore college in 1869-'70, filling the chair of (Jivek and German. He became tutor in Latin at Harvard in 1870, in 1873 assistant professor, and in lss:{ professor of the same, and since 1882 he has been dean of the college faculty. He has published several papers on philological and educational matters, and later was engaged, with Prof. Tracy Peck, of Yale, in editing a "College Series of Latin Authors," ten volumes of which have been published (Boston, 1889-98).

SMITH, George. banker, b. in Old Deer, Scotland, 8 March, 1808; d. in London. 7 Oct., l"-!i!i. He passed two years in Aberdeen college with the intention of studying medicine, but, his eyesight failing, he turned'to farming. In 1833 he came to this country, and in 1834 settled in Chicago. In iv he invested in city lots. He also bought land