Smith, George (4)
Smith, George (1)
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1801. Of Presbyterian parentage, he, nevertheless, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chenango County, N.Y., in November, 1817. He joined the Pittsburgh Conference in 1832, and was ordained deacon in 1834 and elder in 1836. He afterwards went West and joined the Missouri Conference. He died Sept. 1, 1872. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church, South, 1872, p. 737.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, George (2)
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Hampshire Co., Va., in 1810, but was removed in early life to Ohio. In 1830 he was licensed as a local preacher, and joined the Ohio Conference in 1833. He was ordained deacon in 1835 and elder in 1836, at the first session of the Detroit Conference. He served the Church thirty-five years, twenty-two as presiding elder, and died May 4, 1868. He was a member of the General Conference of 1844. He was a man of sound judgment, comprehensive views, and eminently earnest and practical as a preacher. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1868, p. 175.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, George (4)
an eminent English Assyriologist, was born about 1840. Originally a bank- note engraver, he began, in 1857, the study of the cuneiform inscriptions, and after publishing several interesting discourses in a German periodical, was called in 1867 to a position in the British Museum, where he rendered important aid to Rawlinson in the preparation of volume three of his Cuneiformn Inscriptions of Western Asia. He made two visits to the ruins in Assyria, one in 1872, and another in 1876, and during the latter died at Aleppo, August 19 of that year. Among his other contributions to antiquarian science are Chaldecean Account of Genesis (1876), and many papers in the Journal of the Society of Biblical Archaeology.