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rank of orderly-sergeant. He resigned from the arm}' and engaged in the steamboat business, but on the outbreak of the civil war, he organized the 8th Missouri volunteer regiment; was chosen its colonel in July, 1861, and led it in the advance on Fort Henry. He commanded the 5tli brigade. 2d division under Gen. Charles F. Smith, at Fort Donelson, Tenn., com- manded the 1st bri- gade, 3d division, Army of the Tennes- see, at Shiloh, and commanded an ex- pedition to Holly Springs, Miss. He commanded the 2d division, 13th army corps, forming the right wing of the Fed- eral army at Chikasaw Bluffs, Miss., Dec. 27, 1862- Jan. 3, 1863; and commanded the 2d division, 15th army corps, Army of the Tennessee under Sher- man, in the Chattanooga campaign, Nov. 23-27, 1863. He was second in command of the 15th army corps, under Logan, and on the death of Mc- Pherson, July 22, 186-1, succeeded to the command tif the corps, Logan having assumed command of the Army of the Tennessee. He was detailed on the occupation of Vicksburg, and resigned his commission at the close of the war, after which he served as U.S. consul at Honolulu; declined the office of governor of the territory of Colorado, and engaged in presenting claims for pension appli- cants to the pension department in Washington, D.C. He died in Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 29, 1874. SMITH, Nathan, pliysician and educator, was born at Rehoboth, Mass., Sept. 30,1762. At an early age he removed with his parents to Chester, Vt., where he attended school ma desultory way, and during the last half of the Revolutionary war was engaged in repulsing the Indian raids on the northern frontier. He studied medicine under Dr. Josiah Goodhue of Putney, Vt., 1781-7; prac- tised in Cornish, N.H., 1787-89; attended med- ical lectures at Harvard medical school, an.d was graduated M.D. in 1790. He resumed prac- tice in Cornish, 1790-96; and continued his med- ical studies in London and Edinbuigh in 1796. He went to Dartmouth college in 1798, where he established the chair of anatomy and surgery and occupied it, 1798-1810, and also established the chair of theory and practice of medicine, which he held, 1798-1813, at the same time con- ducting an extensive private practice. He re- moved to New Haven in 1813, where he was pro- fessor of theory aad practice of physic, surgery

and obstetrics at Yale, 1813-29, and was largely influential in the establishment of a medical building, library and museum. In 1819 he w;is consulted bj- President William Allen of Bowdoin college, in regard to establishing medical instruc- tion in that state, and on June 27, 1820, he was made professor of theory and practice of medi- cine in Bowdoin, which position he held until 1825. He was also lecturer on medicine and sur- gery at the University of Vermont, 1822-25. He received from Dartmouth the honorary de- gree of A.M. in 1798, and that of M.D. in 1801, and from Harvard that of M.D. in 1811. He was the originator of various methods of surgical operation, invented apparatus for the reduction of fractures, and is the author of: Practical Essays on Typhus Fever (1824); and Medical and Surgical Memoirs, edited, with addenda, by his son, Nathan Ryno Smith (1831). He died in New Haven, Conn., July 26, 1829.

SMITH, Nathan, senator, was born in Roxbury parish, Woodbury, Conn., Jan. 8, 1770; son of Richard and Annis (Hurd) Smith; and great- grandson of Capt. Benjamin Hinman. He re- ceived a classical education; studied at the Litchfield Law school, and began practice in New Haven. Conn, He was a representative in the state legislature for several years; state's attor- ney for New Haven county; a delegate to the Hartford convention in 1814; U.S. attorney for the district of Connecticut; a candidate for gov- ernor of Connecticut in 1825, but was defeated by Oliver Wolcott, and was elected U.S. senator in May, 1832, for the term expiring March 3, 1839, took his seat Dec. 2, 1833, and died in office. His funeral took place in the senate chamber at Washington, and was attended by President Andrew Jackson and his cabinet. He was a charter trustee of Trinity college. Conn., 1823- 35, and received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale college in 1808. He died in Washing- ton D.C, Dec. 6, 1835.

SMITH, Nathaniel, statesman and jurist, was born in Judea society, Woodbury, Conn., Jan. 6, 1762; son of Richard and Annis (Hurd) Smith; and brotlier of Nathan Smith (1770-1835). He studied law under Judge Tapping Reeve and was married to Ruth, daughter of the Rev, Noah Benedict. He was a representative in the Con- necticut legislature, 1789-95; a Federalist rep- resentative in the 4th and 5th congresses, 1795- 99, declining re-election in 1798; a state senator, 1800-05. and judge of the supreme court of Con- necticut. 1806-19. He was one of the foremost men of the Hartford convention of 1814. With Chancellor Kent of New York, he was appointed to establish a new site for Williams college. He received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1795. He died in Woodbury, Conn., March 9, 1822,