Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Smith, Benjamin Coleman a Presbyterian minister, was born in Windsor, Vt., May, 1800. He was educated in the Bloomfield Academy, N. J; graduated at the Theological Seminary at Auburn, N.Y.; and was licensed by Windsor Congregational Association, Vt., and ordained by the same in 1836. He was chaplain of the state prison at Auburn for … Continue reading “Smith, Benjamin Coleman”

Smith, Benjamin A. a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Warren Co., Ga., in 1813. He embraced religion in his seventeenth year and united with the Church. He was licensed to preach in 1848, and in 1849 was admitted into the Georgia Conference. His brief ministry was closed by death June … Continue reading “Smith, Benjamin A.”

Smith, Bela a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1784, converted when about eighteen years of age, and admitted on trial by the New York Conference in 1809. In 1810 he was ordained deacon as a missionary to Canada; in 1811 admitted into full connection and appointed to Ulster Circuit. He was ordained, in 1812, … Continue reading “Smith, Bela”

Smith, Azariah, M.D. a minister of the Congregational Church, was born in Manlius, N.Y., Feb. 16, 1817. From a very early age he was kept. at school; studying, in addition to the ordinary branches, algebra, Latin, and Greek. In the spring of 1834 he entered the freshman class in Yale College. In 1835, during a … Continue reading “Smith, Azariah, M.D.”

Smith, Asa D., D.D., LL.D. a Presbyterian minister, was born in Amherst, Mass., Sept. 21, 1804. At the age of seventeen, while living at Windsor, Vt., he was called by divine grace to a new life, and there he consecrated himself with all his characteristic earnestness to the service of Christ. The vows he then … Continue reading “Smith, Asa D., D.D., LL.D.”

Smith, Asa a Methodist Episcopal minister, was received on trial in the Philadelphia Conference in 1800, and appointed to the Northumberland and Wyoming Circuit. He subsequently traveled Salem, Freehold, Gloucester, Bristol, Cecil, Chester, Bohemia, Kent, Dover, Queen Ann’s, Lancaster, Northampton, Essex, Staten Island, Somerset, Snow Hill, Annamessex, Dorchester, Accomac, and Salisbury circuits, which terminated his … Continue reading “Smith, Asa”

Smith, Archibald G. a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in New York in 1826, and was admitted into full connection in the Rock River Conference in 1856. He sustained an effective relation for eleven years, and was superannuated four years. He died at Shell Bark, Butler Co., Ill., August, 1870. See Minutes … Continue reading “Smith, Archibald G.”

Smith, Archer B. a Baptist minister, was born in Georgetown, S.C., and graduated at Brown University in the class of 1828, and pursued his theological studies at Newton. His ministerial life was spent at the South, chiefly in Virginia, where he was highly respected. He died at his residence at Auburn Mills, Hanover Co., Va., … Continue reading “Smith, Archer B.”

Smith, Anson C. a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Bridgewater, N.H., Dec. 20, 1810, and made profession of religion in 1831. He entered the ministry in 1834 as local preacher, and was admitted into the New Hampshire Conference in 1835, receiving ordination as deacon in 1837, and as elder in 1839. … Continue reading “Smith, Anson C.”

Smith, Amos a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Frederick County, Va., April 30; 1795, and professed conversion in 1811. He served as a soldier during the war of 1812, after which he studied in Asbury College, Baltimore. In 1820 he was admitted on trial into the Baltimore Conference, and thus commenced … Continue reading “Smith, Amos”