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574 " Petroleum " to the official reports. His published papers were about 150 in number. The more im- portant of them were collected and published by him under the title of " Mineralogy and Chemistry, Original Researches" (Louisville. ls?3: enlarged, with biographical sketches, 1884). Mrs. Smith trans- ferred to the National academy of sciences $8,000, the sum that was paid by Harvard university for Dr. Smith's collection of meteorites, the interest of which is to Lie expended in a Lawrence Smith medal valued at 200 and presented not oftener than once in two years to any person that shall make satisfac- tory original investigations of meteoric bodies. The first presentation 01 this medal was on 18 April. isss. to Prof. Hubert A. Newton (q. v.).

SMITH, John Speed, congressman, b. in Jes- samine county, Ky., 31 July. 1792: d. in Madison county, Ky., 6 June, 1854. He received a public- school education, became a skilled Indian fighter, served under Gen. William H. Harrison at the bat- tle of Tippecanoe, and was his aide in the battle of the Thames, 5 Oct., 1813. He was frequently in the legislature, its speaker in 1827, and a member of congress in 1821-'3, having been elected as a Democrat. During the administration of John Quincy Adams he was secretary of the delegation that was sent by the United States to the South A liean congress which met at Tacubaya. In lie was. U. S. district attorney for Ken- tucky. In 1839 he was appointed, with James T. Morehead, a commissioner to Ohio to obtain the paa^e of a law for protecting slave property in Kentucky. For several years previous to his death he was state superintendent of public works, and in 1846-'8 he was a member of the Kentucky sen- ate. His son. Green Clay, soldier, b. in Rich- mond. Ky., 2 July. 18:32 : d'. in Washington, D. C., 29 June, 1895, was named for his grandfather. Gen. Green Clay. After serving a year in the Mexican war, he entered Transylvania university, where he was graduated in 1850, and at Lexington law- school in 1853, and practised in partnership with his lather. In 1858 he removed to Covington. In 1853-'7 he served as school commissioner. In leg islal are, where he earnestly upheld the National govern- ment, and in 1801 he entered the army as a private. He became colonel of the 4th Kentucky cavalry in February, 1862, served under Gen. Ebenezer Du- mont, and was wounded at Lebanon, Tenn. He w.i- made brigadier-general of volunteers, 11 June, 1862, but, having been chosen a member of con- gress, resigned his commission on 1 Dec., 1863, after taking part in numerous engagements. He served till 1866, when he resigned on being ap- pointed by President Johnson governor of Mon- tana, where he remained till 1869. He was a dele- gate to the Baltimore Republican convention in 1864, and on 13 March, 1865, was given the brevet of major-general of volunteers. On his retirement from the governorship of Montana he entered the Christian ministry, was ordained in 1869. and be- came in the same year pastor of the Baptist church in Frankfort, Ky. Much of his later ministry had been employed in evangelistic service. Gen. Smith had also taken an active part in furthering the temperance reform, and in 1876 was the candidate of the Prohibition party for the presidency of the United States, receiving a popular vote of 9,522.

SMITH, John Talbot, clergyman and author, b. in Saratoga, N. Y., 22 Sept., 1855. He was edu- cated at the Christian Brothers' schools, Albany, and at St. Michael's college, Toronto, Canada, was ordained a priest in 1881. and appointed curate of Watertown, N. Y. He was made pastor of Rouse's Point in 1883, and subsequently appointed pro- moter fisculis of the diocese of Ogdensburg. He is a regular contributor to the " Catholic World " and other magazines and journals, and makes a specialty of questions connected with labor. He has written " Woman of Culture," a novel (New York, 1882) : " History of Ogdensburg Diocese " (1885); "Solitary Island," a novel (1888); and Prairie Boy." a'story for boys (1888).

'''SMITH. Jonathan Bayard''', member of the Continental congress, b. in Philadelphia. Pa.. 21 Feb., 1742; d. there, 16 June, 1812. His father, Samuel, a native of Portsmouth. N. H.. settled in Philadelphia, where he became a well-known merchant. The son was graduated at Princeton in 1760, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was among the earliest of those who espoused the cause of independence, and he was active in the Revolutionary struggle. In 1775 he was chosen secretary of the committee of safety, and in February, 1777. lie was elected by the assembly a delegate to the Continental congress. He was a second time chosen to this post, serving in the congresses of 1777-'8. From 4 April, 1777. till 13 Nov., 1778, he was prothonotary of the court of common pleas. On 1 Dec., 1777, he presided at the public meeting, in Philadelphia, of "Real Whigs," by whom it was resolved "That it be recommended to the council of safety that in this great emergency . . . every person between the age of sixteen and fifty years be ordered out under arms." During this year he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of associators" under Col. John Bayard, who was C'ol. Smith's brother-in-law, and the latter subsequently commanded a battalion. In 1778 he was appointed a justice of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions, and orphans' court, which post he held many years. He was appointed in 1781 one of the auditors of the accounts of Pennsylvania troops in the service of the United States. In 1792, and subsequently, he was chosen an alderman of the city, which was an office of great dignity in his day, and in 1794 he was elected auditor-general of Pennsylvania. He became in 1779 one of the founders and a member of the first board of trustees of the University of the state of Pennsylvania, and when in 1791 this institution united with the College of Philadelphia, under the name of the University of Pennsylvania, he was chosen a trustee, which place he held until his death, and was also from 1779 till 1808 a trustee of Princeton. He was a vice-president of the Sons of Washington, and grand-master of Masons in Philadelphia, and for forty years was a member of the American philosophical society. His son, Samuel Harrison, editor, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1772 ; d. in Washington, D. C., 1 Nov., 1845, was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1787, edited the " New World'" in 1796-1800, and on the removal of the seat of government to Washington. D. ( '., on 31 Oct. of the latter year, founded the " National Intelligencer," which he edited till 1818. He was commissioner of revenue from 1813 till the office was abolished. He published " Remarks on Education "(Philadelphia, 1798); "Trial of Samuel Chase, Impeached before the U. S. Senate," with Thomas Lloyd (2 vols.. Washington, 1805); and an "Oration" (1813). His wife. Margaret Bayard, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1778: d. in Washington, D. C., in 1844, was the daughter of Col. John Bayard, of Philadelphia. She was educated at the Moravian seminary. Bethlehem. Pa., married Mr. Smith in 1800, and removed with him to Washington, D. C., where she was for many years a popular leader of society, her house being the resort of