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in England, Italy and Greece, 1866-67; studied at home, lS7-69 ; and was professor of Greek and German at Swartlimore college, Pa., 1869-70. He was married, Aug. 25, 1870, to Emma Gertrude, daughter of John H. and Henrietta (Peale) Gris- com of New York city. He was tutor in Latin at Harvard, 1870-73; assistant professor, 1873-83; and was made i)rofessor of Latin in 1883, serving as dean of Harvard college, 18S2-91; dean of the Harvard faculty of arts and sciences, 1898-1902 ; and director of the American Classical School at Rome. Italy, 1897-98. He was a member of the school committee of Cambridge, 1882-83 ; and president of the American Philological associ- ation, 1898-99. He received the degree LL.D. from Haverford in 1888. He was co-editor with Prof. Tracy Peck of Yale, of a college series of Latin authors by various editors (12 vols, in 1903).

SMITH, Daniel, senator, was born in Fauquier county, Va., in 1740. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Tennessee; served as major-general of militia; was appointed by President "Washington secretary of the Southwest Territory, June 8, 1790. recommissioned Dec. 10, 1794; was a mem- ber of the Tennessee constitutional convention, 1796, and was appointed U.S. senator from Tennes- see to fill a vacancy caused bj' the resignation of Andrew Jackson in 1798, serving from Dec. 3, 1798, to March 3, 1799. He was elected in 1805 as successor to William Cooke, and served from Dec. 2, 1805, to March 3, 1809. He is the author of a Geography of the State of Tennessee ; With 3/ap(1799). He died in Sumner county, Tenn., June 16. 1818.

SMITH, David Eugene, educator, was born in Cortland, N.Y., Jan. 21, 18G0 ; son of the Hon. Abram P. and Mary Elizabeth (Bronson) Smith ; grandson of Nathan and Lucy (Mallery) Smith and of Horace and Polly (Ball) Bronson, and a descendant of Ensign Henry Smith (born in Ger- many in 1748), Dr. Japheth Hunt, Major Samuel Mallery, Stephen Olmsted and Samuel Dunham, all soldiers in the Revolutionary army. He was graduated from Syracuse university, Ph.B. (vale- dictory honors), 1881. Ph.M., 1884; Ph.D., 1887; studied law at Cortland, N.Y., 1881-83, and practised there, 1883-84. He was teacher of mathematics in the State Normal school at Cort- land, 1884-91 ; professor of mathematics in the State Normal college at Ypsilanti, Mich., 1891-98; principal of the State Normal school at Brock- port, N.Y., 1898-1901, and in 1901 was made pro- fessor of mathematics in Columbia university, N.Y., on the Teachers' College and pure science faculties. He was married, Jan. 19, 1887, to Fanny, daughter of Charles Culver and Sarah Ann (Stickels) Taylor of Cortland, N.Y. The honorary degree of master of pedagogy was con- ferred upon him by the State Normal college of

Michigan in 1898. Professor Smith delivered courses of lectures on the history and teaching of mathematics at the Harvard Summer school in 1900, 1902, 1903. He became mathematical editor of the New International Encyclopcedia, editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, librarian and member of the publication committee of the same society, and member of the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung. He is the author of: History of Modern Mathematics (1896) ; Teaching of Elementary Mathematics (1900), and joint author, with W. W. Beman, of Plane and Solid Geometry (1895) ; Translation of Klein's 'Famous Problems of Geometry' (1897); Higher Arithmetic (1898); New Plane and Solid Geometry (1899); New Plane Geometry (1899); New Solid Geometry (1900); Elements of Algebra (1900); Translation of Fink's 'History of Mathe- matics' (1900); Geometric Paper Folding (1901); Academic Algebra (1902).

SMITH, David Highbaugh, representative, was born near Hammonville, Ky., Dec. 19, 1854 ; son of Jerome and Catherine Smith. He was edu- cated at Horse Cave, Leitchfield, and Hartford colleges, Kentucky ; began the practice of law in 1876 ; was superintendent of common schools of Larue county, 1878, and county attorney, 1878-81. He represented the county in the general assem- bly, 1881-83, and the thirteenth senatorial district in the state senate, 1885-94 ; being president pro tempore of the senate, 1891-94. He was a Demo- cratic representative from the fourtii district of Kentucky, in the 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th con- gresses, 1897-1905.

SMITH, Delazon, senator, was born in New Berlin, N.Y., in 1816. He was graduated front Oberlin collegiate institute, Ohio, in 1837, and was admitted to the bar, but became a journalist and edited the True Jeffersonian in Rochester, N.Y., and the Western Empire in Dayton, Ohio. He was special U.S. commissioner to Quito,^ Ecuador, S.A., in 1842-45 : removed to Iowa Ter- ritory, in 1846 ; entered tlie Methodist ministry, and removed to Oregon Territory, 1852, where he edited the Oregon Democrat, 1853-60. He was a representative in the territorial legislature of Oregon, 1854-50 ; a member of the convention that framed the constitution for the state in 1857, and was elected to the U.S. senate by the Demo- cratic legislature of Oregon, drawing the short term, and serving from Feb. 4, to March 3, 1859. He died in Portland, Oregon, Nov. 17, 1860.

SMITH, Edgar Moncena, educator, was born at Livermore, Maine, Aug. 4, 1845 ; son of Charles and Mar}' (Walker) Smith. He was graduated from Wesleyan university, Conn., A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874: preached in Bristol, R.L, 1871-72; joined the Providence conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, 1872, and was stationed at