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Beekman, of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a member of the faculty at Rutgers, 1871-85. He was assistant on the geological survey, 1864-85 ; as- sistant in charge of the New York state museum, 1885 ; and state geologist of New Jersey, 1890-01. He received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from Lafayette in 1881, and that of LL.D. from Rut- gers, in 1902. He was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers ; of the American Public Health association ; the Geological Society of America, of the American Philosophical society, and a member of the board of managers of the geologi- cal survej^ of New Jersey. He is the author of : Reports on Clay Deposits (1878); Building Stones in New York (1888) ; Report on Iron Ores in Neio York (1889), and other state reports.

SMOOT, Reed, senator, was born in Salt Lake city, Jan. 10, 186S ; son of Abraham Owen and Anne K. Smoot. He removed to Provo City, Utah, 1872, was graduated from Brigham Young academy in 1879, and became manager of one of the co-operative industrial institutions, founded by his father and Brigham Young. He was superintendent of the Provo woolen mills, 1883- 89 ; also 1892-1903 ; missionary to Europe, 1889-90 ; and succeeded his father as president of the Utah State of Zion in 1890. He was chosen one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, at the general conference of April 8, 1900. He joined the Republican party in 1888 ; supported William McKinley for presi- dent in 1896, and on Jan. 21, 1903, he was elected U.S. senator by the legislature of Utah, to suc- ceed Joseph Lafayette Rawlins, and took his seat on the assembling of the U.S. senate in extra session. March 5, 1903.

SMYTH, Albert Henry, author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1868 ; son of William Clark and Adelaide (Suplee) Smyth. He was graduated from the Philadelphia Cen- tral High school, A.B. , 1882, A.M., 1885, and engaged in journal- ism. In 1883 he be- gan the publication of Shakespeariana, a monthly magazine, which he edited until November, 1884, and which became widely known among Shake- spearian scholars. He was assistant librarian Philadelphia, 1884-85 ; assisted in the classification of the Johns Hopkins

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university library, 1885-86, and pursued special studies in Germanic philology, receiving the de- gree of B.A., extra ordinem, from Johns Hopkins in 1887. In May, 1886, he accepted the professor- ship of English literature in the Philadelphia Central High school and after 1894 was the head of the department of the English language and literature. He was elected to membership in the principal scientific societies in America and Europe, and is the author of : A History of American Literature (1890) ; Philadelphia Maga- zines and Their Contributors (1891) ; an intro- duction to a new translation of Hamlet into modern Greek (Athens, 1890) ; Life of Bayard Taylor in the American Vum of Letters Series (1895) ; Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre (1898) : an annotated edition of Burke's Let- ters to a Noble Lord (1898) ; Pope's Homer's Iliad (1899), and numerous contributions to magazines and papers read before various learned societies. SMYTH, Egbert Coffin, educator, was born in Brunswick, Maine, Aug. 24, 1829 ; son of William (q.v.) and Harriet Porter (Coffin) Smyth. He was graduated from Dummer academy, 1844, Bowdoin college, A.B., 1848, A.M., 1851, and from Bangor Theological seminary, 1853. He was a tutor in Greek and algebra at Bowdoin, 1849-51 ; professor of rhetoric and oratory, 1854- 56, and Collins professor of natural and revealed religion, 1856-63. He was ordained, July 23, 1856 ; was a resident licentiate at Andover Theo- logical seminary, 1854-55 ; studied at Halle and Berlin, Germany, 1862-63 ; was lecturer on pastoral theology at Andover, 1863-68 ; Brown professor of ecclesiastical history from 1863, and president of the faculty from 1878 to 1896, when he resigned, although still retaining his member- ship in the faculty. In 1886 complaint was made to the Visitors of the seminary that specified statements in the Andover Review and in Pro- gressive Orthodoxy, publications of which Pro- fessor Smyth was joint editor, were contrary to the seminary creed and heterodox. This gave rise to complicated proceedings, including an appeal to the supreme judicial court of Massachu- setts, which were not concluded until the autumn of 1892, when the Visitors dismissed the charges. During these six years Dr. Symth con- tinued his work as president and professor, through the steadfast support of the trustees of the seminary. He received the honorary degree of D.D., from Bowdoin, 1866, and from Harvard, 1887; that of LL.D., from Bowdoin, 1902; and was elected a member of the American Antiqua- rian society in 1870, and of the Massachusetts Historical society in 1882. He was also elected a trustee of Dummer academy and Bowdoin col- lege, and a corporate member of the A.B.C.F.M. He was married, Aug. 12, 1857, to Elizabeth