Smith, Thomas (2) a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, Mass., March 10, 1702, graduated from Harvard in 1720, and was licensed to preach in April, 1722. On account of his youth he declined a call from the Church in Bellingham, Mass., but preached in various places as a supply. On March 8, 1727, a … Continue reading “Smith, Thomas (4)”
Smith, Sydney
Smith, Sydney an English clergyman and celebrated humorist, was born in Woodford, Essex, in 1771, and was educated at Winchester School and New College, Oxford, where, in 1790, he obtained a fellowship of one hundred pounds a year. Having entered the Church, he became, in 1794, curate of Amesbury, Wiltshire, but three years later went … Continue reading “Smith, Sydney”
Smith, Stephen
Smith, Stephen a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Hampshire County, Va., Nov. 1, 1802, and united with the Church in 1815. He was received into the Baltimore Conference in 1830. In 1844 he lost his voice while preaching in a new, damp church, and took a superannuated, and afterwards a … Continue reading “Smith, Stephen”
Smith, Socrates
Smith, Socrates a minister of the Presbyterian Church, was born in Henniker, N.H., June 16, 1814. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1842 and entered the Union Theological Seminary, where he took the full course and graduated in 1845. He was soon thereafter ordained, and accepted a call Nov. 23, 1845, to Beardstown, Ill., as … Continue reading “Smith, Socrates”
Smith, Seth
Smith, Seth a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Bristol County, Me., Feb. 1, 1805, and was converted in Onondaga County, N.Y., June, 1829. He removed to Indiana in 1834, was licensed to preach in 1837, and joined the travelling connection in 1838. He was a member of the Southeast Indiana Conference, … Continue reading “Smith, Seth”
Smith, Samuel W. (2)
Smith, Samuel W. (1) a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in England in 1812, and began to preach at the age of nineteen. In 1834 he joined the itinerant ministry, in which he continued to labor until his death, March 16, 1858. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1858, p. 99. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Smith, Samuel W. (2)”
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, D.D., LL.D.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, D.D., LL.D. a distinguished divine and educator of the Presbyterian Church, and son of the Rev. Robert Smith, D.D., was born in Pequea, Lancaster Co., Pa., March 16, 1750. At a very early period he gave indications of possessing a mind of no common order. When he was only six or seven … Continue reading “Smith, Samuel Stanhope, D.D., LL.D.”
Smith, Samuel
Smith, Samuel an English clergyman and popular writer of tracts, was born in or near Dudley, Worcestershire, in 1588, and studied for some time at St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford. He left without taking a degree, and became beneficed at Prittlewell, Essex, and afterwards, as Wood says, in his own county; but, according to Calamy, he … Continue reading “Smith, Samuel”
Smith, Robert D.
Smith, Robert D. a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Oct. 21, 1802. In 1813 his family removed to Champaign County, O., where he lived till 1824, when he went to Mississippi to teach school. There he was converted, and united with the Church Nov. 9, 1824. He … Continue reading “Smith, Robert D.”
Smith, Robert A.
Smith, Robert A. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Robertson County, Tenn., in 1809; converted in 1828, licensed as a local preacher in 1832, received on trial in the Tennessee Conference in the same year, transferred and stationed on Oakmulgee Circuit in 1833, at Jones’s Valley in 1834-35, and admitted into full connection at … Continue reading “Smith, Robert A.”