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590 -'5, and was then transferred to the chair of anatomy. Since 1874 he has been professor of clinical surgery in the medical department of the University of New Tork. He became joint editor with Dr. Samuel S. Purple of the " New York Medical Journal " in 1853, its sole editor in 1857, changed it into a weekly and published it under the name of the " Medical Times." in 1860, and continued in its charge until 1803, when the paper was discontinued. He was among the first to propose the organization of Bellevue medical college, and was a member of its faculty for ten years, and it was mainly due to his efforts that the Medical journal library was established. He made a thorough examination of the sanitary condition of New York in 1865, and presented to the legis- lature an official report of his investigations, which was published (New York, 1865). He was appoint- ed by the governor a health commissioner in 1868, and reappointed by the mayor in 1870 and in 1872, was chiefly instrumental in founding the Ameri- can health association in that year, and was its president for four terms. He was also active in organizing a National board of health, of which he was appointed a member by the president in 1879. In 1882'8 he was state commissioner of lunacy, during which service he published six voluminous reports on the condition of the insane, and of the institutions for their cure. Since 1880 he has been a member of the State board of charities. He has tied the common iliac artery for aneurism, and was the second in this country to perform Symes's am- putation at the ankle-joint. He is a member of various medical societies, and has published Mono- graph of Seventy-five Cases of Rupture of th. I'ri- nary Bladder," "which was highly commended in this country and abroad (ISM), "Hand-Book of Surgical Operations " (1863), and Principles of Operative Surgery" (1879).

'''SMITH. Theophilus Washington''', jurist, b. in New York city, 28 Sept., 1784; d. in Chicago, 111., 6 May, 1846. After serving in the U. S. navy, he was admitted to the bar in his native city, 11 Dec., 1805, having been a law-student in the office of Aaron Burr, and a fellow-student with Washington Irving. On 2 April, 1806, he was commissioned notary public by Gov. Morgan Lewis. In 1816 he visited the west in the interest of his father-in-law, who had a large estate in Ohio, and proceeding as far as Edwardsville, 111., settled there. In 1823 he was elected state sena- tor, introduced and supported the original bill for the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal, and was appointed one of the commissioners. In 1825 he was elected judge of the supreme court of the state. In 1836 he removed to Chicago, and in April, 1841, he was assigned the judgeship in the 7th circuit of the state in addition to his duties as judge of the supreme court. Failing health com- pelled him to resign his office, 26 Dec., 1842.

'''SMITH. Thomas''', clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 10 March, 1702; d. 'in Portland, Me., 25 May, 1795. He was the son of Thomas Smith, a well-known merchant of Boston, and was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1720. After leaving college he at once entered upon theological studies, and be- gan to preach on 19 April, 1722. In June. 1725, he came for the first time, to Falmouth (now Port- land), then the extreme settlement in Maine, and preached for several months to the great satisfac- tion of the people, who extended to him a call to become their pastor. 26 April, 1726. This he did not accept until 23 Jan., 1727, and he was publicly ordained on 8 March of the same year. His salary was "70 money the first year besides his board." Mr. Smith continued pastor of the 1st church in Portland more than sixty-eight years, and officiated in part of the services till within two years of his death. He kept an historical and personal diary from 1720 till 1788, a greater length of time prob- ably than that during which any similar record has been kept within the limits of the state. It was edited by the Rev. Samuel Freeman (Portland, 1821). and a new edition, with notes and a memoir by William Willis, former president of the Maine historical society, was issued in 1849.

SMITH, Thomas Church Haskell. soldier, b. in Acushnet, Mass., 24 March, 1819; d. in Xord- hoff, Cal., 8 April, 1897. He was graduated at Harvard, was admitted to the bar. engaged in the establishment of the Morse telegraph system in the west and south, and was president of the Xew Orleans and Ohio telegraph company. At the be- ginning of the civil war he became lieutenant- colonel of the 1st Ohio cavalry, served under Gen. John Pope in Virginia, and became brigadier-gen- eral of volunteers in September. 1862. He was placed in command of the district of Wisconsin in 1863 to quell the draft riots, became inspector- general of the Department of the Missouri in 1864, and while commanding that district dealt with the disturbances that arose from the return of 1,800 Confederate soldiers to their homes after the sur- render. He carried out Gen. Pope's policy of withdrawing government troops from Missouri, and restored the state without delay to its own civil control. He was mustered out of the vol- unteer service in 1866. and in 1878 entered the regular army as major and paymaster. In 1883 he was retired, and removed to California.

SMITH, Thomas Kilby. soldier, b. in Boston, Mass., 23 Sept.. 1820 ; d. in New York city, 14 Dec., 1887. His father, George, was a captain in the East Indian trade for many years, but removed to Ohio about 1828, and settled on a farm in Hamilton county. Thomas was graduated at Cincinnati college in 1837, read law with Salmon P. Chase, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practised till 1853, when he became bureau and special agent in the post-office department in Washington, D. C. He was U. S. marshal for the southern district of Ohio in 1855-'6, and subsequently deputy clerk of Hamilton county. Ohio. He became lieutenant-colonel in the 54th Ohio infantry in September, 1861, was promoted its colonel in October, and commanded the regiment at Pittsburg Landing, the advance on Corinth, and the Vicksburg campaign. He was assigned to the 2d brigade, 2d division of the 15th army corps, in January, 1863, was on a court of inquiry, and on staff duty with Gen. Ulysses S. Grant from May till September, 1863, and was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in August of that year. He commanded brigades in the 17th army corps, and led a division of artillery, cavalry, and infantry in the Red river expedition. His special duty being to protect the gun-boats when the main body of the army at Sabine cross roads, endeavoring to reach Shreveport. fell back, Gen. Smith was left with 2.500 men to protect the fleet in its withdrawal down the river. He accomplished the ta,k in the face of opposing armies on both banks of the stream. Subsequently he commanded the 3d division detachment of the Army of the Tennessee, and thru had charge of the district of southern Alabama and Florida and the district and port of Mobile. He was compelled to resign field duty in July, 1864, on account of the failure of his health, was brevetted major-general of volunteers, ."i March, IMM. and in 1866 became U. S. consul at Panama.