Page:Collier's New Encyclopedia v. 08.djvu/525

LEFT SMITH 461 SMITH at Piano, 111., in 1874. He was educated at the University of Iowa, Graceland College, University of Missouri, and Uni- versity of Kansas, and holds the degree of Ph.D. from Clark University. After teaching mathematics at Graceland Col- lege, Lamoni, la., and being editor of a local paper, he became in 1902 first coun- selor of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and presi- dent in 1915. From 1908 to 1912 he was editor of the "Journal of History" and in 1917 he became editor of the "Saints' Herald." He was a member of many his- torical and scientific societies. SMITH, GEORGE, an English Assyri- ologist; born in London, England, March 26, 1840. The importance of his contri- butions to our knowledge of Assyrian his- tory and inscriptions is everywhere ac- knowledged. Part of his published works are: "The Chaldean Account of Genesis"; "Assyria from the Earliest Times Till the Fall of Nineveh" (1875) ; "Assyrian Dis- coveries" (1875), an account of his own travels and researches; "The Assyrian Eponym Canon" (1875); "History of Babylonia," edited by A. H. Sayce (1877) ; "History of Sennacherib," edited by A. H. Sayce (1878). He died in Aleppo, Aug. 19, 1876. SMITH, SIR GEORGE ADAM, a Brit- ish educator, born at Calcutta, in 1856. He was educated at the Royal High School, University, and New College, Ed- inburgh, and at Tubingen and Leipzig. After traveling in Egypt and Syria he became assistant to the Rev. John Fraser, at Brechin, and then became Hebrew tu- tor at Aberdeen. He traveled again in Syria and east of the Jordan, and went back to England to teach and write. His works include: "The Book of Isaiah," "The Preaching of the Old Testament to the Age," "Historical Geography of the Holy Land," "The Twelve Prophets," "The Life of Henry Drummond," "Mod- ern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament," "Syria and the Holy Land." SMITH, GEORGE OTIS, an American geologist and public official, born at Hodg- don, Me., in 1871. He graduated from Colby College in 1893, and took post-grad- uate studies at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity. For many years he was engaged in geological work in various States of the Union, and from 1896 to 1907 was assist- ant geologist and geologist of the United States Geological Survey. He was di- rector of the Survey from 1907. He was a member of many scientific societies and was the autho* of many papers on the economics of minerals and power re- sources. DD- SMITH, GERRIT, an American phi- lanthropist; born in Utica, N. Y., March 6, 1797; was graduated at Hamilton Col- lege in 1818; studied law; and took up his residence at Peterboro, Madison co., N. Y., devoting himself to the care of a vast landed estate in Central and North- ern New York left him by his father. He joined and liberally contributed to the American Colonization Society in 1825, but withdrew from it in 1835, then becom- ing a member of the Anti-Slavery Society. He gave pecuniary aid to John Brown, in whose affair at Harper's Ferry, he, however, it is thought, had no part. He was nominated for governor of New York in 1840 and in 1858; was a member of Congress in 1853-1854, but resigned after one session; with Horace Greeley he signed the bail bond of Jefferson Davis in 1867. He was an earnest advocate of temperance and a supporter of a number of reforms. He built a non-sectarian church at Peterboro, in which he occa- sionally preached. He published "Speeches in Congress" (1855) ; "Ser- mons and Speeches" (1861); "The Re- ligion of Reason" (1864); "The Theolo- gies" (1866) ; and "Nature the Base of a Free Theology" (1867). He died in New York City, Dec. 28, 1874. SMITH, GOLDWIN, an English his- torian; born in Reading, England, Aug. 13, 1823; was educated at Eton and Ox- ford, where he graduated first-class in classics in 1845 and became a fellow of University College in 1847. He also helc the post of Regius Professor of History in the university from 1858 to 1868. As a lecturer he attracted great attention both on account of his strongly democratic views and his striking originality. Hav- ing during the American Civil War strongly defended the cause of the North, he was at the close of the war invited to visit the States to deliver a course of lec- tures, and his visit resulted in his becom- ing Professor of History at Cornell Uni- versity, New York. He resigned the appointment in 1871, and was appointed member of the senate of the University of Toronto, where he afterward resided. Among his chief works are: "Lectures on Modern History" (1866) ; "The Em- pire," a series of letters (1863) ; "Speech- es and Letters on the Rebellion" (1865) ; "Three English Statesmen" (Pym, Crom- well, and Pitt) (1867) ; "A Short History of England Down to the Reformation" (1869) ; "A History of the United States" (1893) ; "Essays on Questions of the Day" (1894) ; "Guesses at the Riddle of Existence" (1896); "The United States: an Outline of Political History" (1899) ; "My Memory of Gladstone" (1905) ; "No Refuge but in Truth" (1909). He died June 7, 1910. -Cyc Vol 8