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hood in St. Michael's church, Marblehead, Mass., June 24, 1818, by Bishop Grisvvold. He was rector of St. Michael's, Marblehead. 1818-20; of St. George's, Accomack, Va., 1820-22; of Ziou church. Charlestovvn, Va., 1822-23; of St. Steph- ens,' Middlebury, Vt., 1823-28; of Grace churcli mission, Philadelphia, 1828-32; and of Christ church, Lexington, Ky., 1832-37. He was state superintendent of public education in Kentucky; was elected the first bishop of Kentucky, and was consecrated at St. Paul's chapel, New York city, Oct. 31, 1832, by Bishops White, Brownell and H. U. Onderdonk, and in 1868 succeeded Bishop Hopkins, deceased, as presiding bishop. On Jan. 27, 1875, Thomas Underwood Dudley (q.v.), became his assistant. The honorary de- gree of A.M. was conferred on him by Middle- bury college in 1825; that of D.D. by Geneva (Hobart) college in 1832, and that of LL.D. by Griswold college in 1870, and by Brown univer- sity in 1872. He edited the Episcojjal Register of Vermont, 1823-28, and the Episcopal Recorder of Philadelphia, 1828-32; and is the author of: Five Charges to the Clergy, Saturday Evening, and Apostolic Succession (1877). He died in New York city. May 31, 1884.

SMITH, Benjamin EII, editor, was born in Beirut, Syria, Feb. 7, 1857; son of the Rev. Eli (q.v.) and Hetty Simpkins (Butler) Smith. He was graduated from Amherst, A.B., 1877, A.M., 1881; was Walker instructor in mathematics, in Amherst, 1878-80, and was instructor in psycho- logy and etliics, in Johns Hopkins university, 1881-82. In 1902 he received the degree of L.H.D. from Amherst. He was married, Oct. 13, 1883, to Cora Shelton Chessman, daughter of George W. and Margaret Shelton, of Derby, Conn. He was the managing editor of the Century Dic- tionary, 1889-91, and its editor after the death of Professor AV. D. Whitney, in 1894; editor of the Century Cyclopcedia of Names,. 1894, and of the Century Atlas, 1897. Dr. Smith translated Schwegler's " History of Philosophy "(1879); Cic- ero's " De Amicitia" (1897), and edited Franklin's " Poor Richard's Almanac " (1898); Selections from Marcus Aurelius (1899); Selections from Epicte- tus (1900); Odes of Horace (1901; Lincoln: Pas- sages from his Speeches and Letters (1901); and Selections from the Tlioughts of Pascal (1902).

SMITH, Caleb Blood, cabinet officer, was born in Boston, Mass., April 16, 1808. His parents re- moved to Ohio, in 1814. He was a student of the" University of Cincinnati, 1824, and Miami uni- versity, 1825-26, but did not graduate. He prac- tised law at Connersville, Ind., 1828-43; established and edited The Lidiana Senti7iel, in 1832; was a representative in the state legislature, 1833-36; being speaker of the House, in 1836; a member of the board of fund commissioners, 1847-48; Whig

Presidential elector in 1841, and Republican elec- tor, 1857; representative from the fifth Indiana district in the 28th, 29th and 30th congresses. 1843-

49, and a commissioner to investigate the claims of American citizens

against Mexico, 1849-

50. He practised law in Cincinnati, 1850- 58, and in Indian- apolis, 1858-61; was president of the Re- publican national convention of 1860; member of the peace congress in Wash- ington, Feb. 4, 1861; secretary of the in- terior, in President Lincoln's cabinet, March 5, 1861, until December, 1862, when

he resigned to accept the position of U.S. dis- trict judge for the district of Indiana. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 7, 1864.

SMITH, Carlos Green, educator, was born near Oglethorpe, Ga., Dec. 18, 1813; son of James and Elizabeth (Green) Smith, and grandson of Robert and Hannah (Andrews) Smith. His father and mother were Virginians, residing in Mecklen- burg county, but were temporarily in Georgia when Carlos G. was born. He was graduated from the University of Nashville, Tenn.; was tutor in the university for two years; taught mathematics and classics in a high school at Nashville; attended the medical college at Louis- ville until 1842, when he was elected professor of ancient languages at La Grange college. 1842-46. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1847 but did not practice, joining Prof. Henry Tutwiler in the conduct of a school at Greene Springs, Ala., 1847-51. He was married. Sept. 18, 1850, to Martha, daughter of Pascal Paoli and Elizabeth (Strudwick) Ashe, both of whom resided in Ala- bama, but who came from North Carolina. He was president of Greene academy. Huntsville, Ala., 1851-59; and established Mountain House, a school for boys, near Courtland, Ala., in 1859. The war broke up the school and in 1865 he re- turned to Huntsville, and taught a classical school there till 1874. He was president of the Univer- sity of Alabama, 1874-78; was president of the Female seminary at Livingston, Ala., in 1878 and removed to Palatka, Fla. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. He died at Palatka, Fla.. Oct. 14. 1892.

SMITH, Charles Emory, cabinet ofticer, was born in Mansfield, Conn., Feb. 18. 1842: son of Emory Boutelle and Arvilla Topliflf (Royce)