Falls, New York, where he conducted an academy. From 1797 to 1805 he
was a Congregational minister at Mansfield, Connecticut, but resigned
his charge on account of his becoming a Unitarian. One God in One
Person Only, the first noteworthy defence of Unitarianism in America;
Philosophy of Language Illustrated; A Description of Trenton Falls.
_See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Sherman, John.= _O._, 1823-1900. Brother of W. T. Sherman, _infra_. A
noted statesman of Ohio; United States senator, 1861-77 and 1881-97;
secretary of the treasury, 1877-1881; and secretary of state,
1897-1898. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and
Cabinet; Selected Speeches and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78. _See Life
by Bronson, 1880._
=Sherman, William Tecumseh.= _O._, 1820-1891. A distinguished soldier
who was general of the United States army, 1869-84. The Military
Lessons of the War; Memoirs by Himself. _See Appletons’ American
Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopædia; The Sherman Letters; and
histories of the Civil War._ _Ap._
=Sherwin, Thomas.= _N. H._, 1799-1869. A noted educator of Boston,
master of the High School, 1838-69, and author of treatises on algebra.
=Sherwood, Adiel.= _N. Y._, 1791-1879. A Baptist minister and educator
of Georgia. Gazetteer of Georgia; Christian and Jewish Churches; Notes
on the New Testament. _See Memoir by his daughter, 1884._
=Sherwood, Mrs. Emily [Lee].= _Ind._, 1843- ----. A Washington
journalist who has published Willis Peyton, a novel.
=Sherwood, James Manning.= _N. Y._, 1814-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman
and editor of religious journals. A Plea for the Old Foundations; The
History of the Cross; Books and Authors. _Fu._
=Sherwood, Mrs. John.= _See Sherwood, Mrs. Mary._
=Sherwood, John D=[7] _N. Y._, 1818-1891. Cousin of J. M. Sherwood,
_supra_. A writer whose home was at Englewood, New Jersey. Comic
History of the United States; The Case of Cuba.
=Sherwood, Mrs. Katherine Margaret [Brownlee].= _Pa._, 1841- ----. A
verse-writer and journalist of Canton, Ohio, who has been especially
successful as a writer of army lyrics and poems for military occasions.
Camp Fire and Memorial Poems; Columbia.
=Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wilson].= _N. H._, 1830-1903. A
Washington novelist and miscellaneous writer, prominent as a social
leader. The Sarcasm of Destiny; A Transplanted Rose; Amenities of Home;
Home Amusements; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal
Courts; Sweet Brier; Roxobel; The Art of Entertaining. _Ap. Do. Har.
Lo._
=Shew, Joel.= _N. Y._, 1816-1855. A hydropathic physician of New York
State among whose writings are, Hydropathy, or the Water Cure; Cholera
Treated by Water; The Hydropathic Family Physician.
=Shields, Charles Woodruff.= _Ind._, 1825-1904. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of the harmony of science and revealed religion
at Princeton College from 1865, and active in behalf of church unity.
The Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer according to the Revision of the
Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ultima, or Science of the Sciences;
The Order of the Sciences; Religion and Science in their Relations
to Philosophy; Essays on Church Unity; The Historic Episcopate; The
Question of Unity; The United Church of the United States. _Scr._
=Shields, Mrs. Sarah Annie [Frost].= 18-- - ----. Parlor Charades and
Proverbs; Laws and By-Laws of American Society; The Art of Dressing
Well; Almost a Woman; Sunshine for Rainy Days, are among her works.
=Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow.= “Mrs. Partington.” _N. H._, 1814-1890.
A journalist of Boston, once widely known as a humourist, whose latest
years were spent in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Life and Sayings of Mrs.
Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork; Mrs. Partington’s Mother Goose;
Ike Partington Stories; Lines in Pleasant Places; Wide Swath, a volume
of collected verse; Rhymes with Reason; Cruises with Captain Bob; The
Double-Runner Club. _See New England Magazine, June, 1891._ _Le._
=Shimeall= [shim´e-all], =Richard Cunningham.= _N. Y._, 1803-1874. An
Episcopal clergyman who adopted Reformed Dutch tenets in 1834, and
subsequently became a Presbyterian. He was a noted biblical scholar
of millenarian views. The End of Prelacy; Christ’s Second Coming;
Prophetic Career and Destiny of Napoleon III.; Unseen World; Political
Economy of Prophecy, are his principal works.
=Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley Bunce [Palmer] [Dana].= _S. C._,
1810-1883. A once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was
at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a Unitarian, and
published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married
her second husband, an Episcopal clergyman, and was received into his
church. The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and
Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including
Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom;
A Southerner Among the Spirits. _See Bibliography of Texas._
=Shinn, Asa.= _N. J._, 1781-1853. A Methodist Protestant minister in
Ohio. Essay on the Plan of Salvation; Benevolence and Rectitude of the
Supreme Being.
=Shinn, Charles Howard.= _Ts._, 1852- ----. A California writer who has
published Mining Camps, a Study in American Frontier Government; The
Story of the Mine. _Ap. Scr._
=Shinn, Earl.= “Edward Strahan.” _Pa._, 1837-1886. A New York
journalist, at one period art critic of The Nation. The New Hyperion:
from Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine; Studies in Modern French Art.
_Lip._
=Shinn, George Wolfe.= _Pa._, 1839- ----. An Episcopal clergyman,
rector of Grace Church, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1875. Friendly
Talks About Marriage; Manual of the Prayer Book; Manual of Church
History; Questions about Our Church; Questions that Trouble Beginners
in Religion; Stories for Christmas Time; Some Modern Substitutes for
Christianity. _Kt. Wh._
=Shipp, Albert Micajah.= _N. C._, 1819-1887. A Methodist clergyman and
educator, professor of theology in Vanderbilt University from 1874, and
author of The History of Methodism in South Carolina.
=Shipp, Barnard.= _Mi._, 1813- ----. A verse-writer of Natchez, and
subsequently of Louisville. Fame, and Other Poems; Progress of Freedom,
and Other Poems.
=Shippen, Edward.= _N. J._, 1827- ----. An eminent naval surgeon of
Philadelphia who published Thirty Years at Sea.
=Shirley, John Milton.= _N. H._, 1831-1887. A lawyer of Andover, New
Hampshire. The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire; Complete History
of the Dartmouth College Case; Reports of Cases in Supreme Judicial
Court.
=Shirley, William.= _E._, 1693-1771. A noted colonial soldier
who planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and was governor of
Massachusetts, 1741-45. Electra, a tragedy; The Birth of Hercules, a
masque; Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of the Siege of
Louisburg; The Conduct of General Shirley Briefly Stated.
=Shock, William Henry.= _Md._, 1821- ----. A United States naval
officer whose Steam Boilers: their Design, Construction, and
Management, is a standard authority.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. A writer of travels.
Eastward to the Land of Morning; The Kingdom of the White Woman, a
volume of Mexican travel; Trans-Caspia: the Sealed Provinces of the
Czar. _Clke._
=Shoup, Francis Asbury.= _Ind._, 1834-1896. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator of Sewanee, Tennessee, professor of metaphysics in the
University of the South, and a Confederate officer in the Civil War.
Infantry Tactics; Artillery Division Drill; Elements of Algebra.
=Shreve, Samuel Henry.= _N. J._, 1829-1884. A civil engineer of New
York city. The Strength of Bridges and Roofs.
=Shreve, Thomas H----.= _D. C._, 1808-1853. Cousin of S. H. Shreve,
_supra_. A journalist of Louisville. Drayton, an American tale; Poems.
=Shuck= [shook], =Mrs. Henrietta [Hall].= _Va._, 1817-1844. The wife
of a missionary in China. Scenes in China (1852). _See Life by Jeter,
1848._
=Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A Congregational
clergyman and verse-writer of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poems; Easter
Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; New Year’s Peace.
=Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet.= _Ms._, 1810-1874. An antiquarian of
Boston. Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar of Old and New
Style; Topographical Description of Boston; Passengers of the Mayflower
in 1620, comprise his principal writings. With D. Pulsifer he edited
The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve volumes.
=Sibler, Wilhelm.= _P._, 1801-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Missouri.
Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels of the Christian Year. _See
Biography (Lebeslauf), 1880._
=Sibley, John Langdon.= _Me._, 1804-1885. The librarian of Harvard
University, 1841-77. History of the Town of Union, Maine; Biographical
Sketches of Harvard University Graduates.
=Sidney, Margaret.= _See Lothrop, Mrs._
=Sigourney= [sĭg´or-nĭ], =Mrs. Lydia Howard [Huntly].= _Ct._,
1791-1865. One of the most popular of the earlier American writers, but
now quite neglected. Her fifty-three volumes of prose and verse were
adapted to an uncritical audience that demanded only gentle feeling and
excellence of intention, and they served their purpose well in their
day. Her verse is not without sweetness, but it never strays far beyond
the realm of the commonplace. She was nearly all her life a resident of
Hartford. Among her prose writings are, Myrtis; Post Meridian; Letters
to My Pupils; Letters to Young Ladies; Traits of the Aborigines in
America; Letters of Life (1866). Other works are, Pocahontas; Moral
Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children; Zinzendorf, and Other
Poems. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Stone’s First Editions of American Authors._ _Har._
=Sikes, Mrs. Olive [Logan].= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Wife of W. W. Sikes,
_infra_. An actress and author, popular at one period as a lecturer.
Photographs of Paris Life; Chateau Frissac, or Home Scenes in France;
John Morris’s Money; Somebody’s Stockings; Apropos of Women and
Theatres; Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes; The Mimic World;
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan; They Met by Chance, a novel.
=Sikes, William Wirt.= _N. Y._, 1836-1883. A journalist of New York
city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, 1876-1883. British Goblins:
Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales;
Studies of Assassination.
=Sill, Edward Rowland.= _Ct._, 1841-1887. A poet and educator of
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, professor in the University of California,
1874-82. His verse is small in quantity, but of rare quality. The
Hermitage, and Other Poems; The Hermitage, and Later Poems; Poems
(containing The Venus of Milo, and other poems). _See Mrs. E. Ward’s
Chapters from a Life._ _Ho. Hou._
=Sill, John Mahelon Berry.= _N. Y._, 1831-1901. A Michigan educator
of prominence, principal of the State Normal School. Synthesis of the
English Sentence; Practical Lessons in English.
=Silliman, Augustus Ely.= _R. I._, 1807-1884. Cousin of B. Silliman,
2d, _infra_. A banker of New York city who published A Gallop Among
American Scenery.
=Silliman, Benjamin.= _Ct._, 1779-1864. A chemist of distinction,
professor of chemistry at Yale University, 1802-55, and the founder
in 1818 of Silliman’s Journal of Science and Art. Journal of Travels
in England (1810); Narrative of a Visit to Europe (1853); Elements of
Chemistry; Consistency of Modern Geology with Sacred History. _See
Life by G. P. Fisher; American Journal of Science, May, 1865; Popular
Science Monthly, June, 1883._
=Silliman, Benjamin.= _Ct._, 1816-1885. Son of B. Silliman, _supra_. A
professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1846 until his death,
and editor of Silliman’s Journal. First Principles of Chemistry;
American Contributions to Chemistry; Principles of Physics.
=Silloway, Thomas William.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. A Boston architect who
became a Universalist minister in 1862. Theogonis; Text-Book of Modern
Carpentry; Warming and Ventilation; Cathedral Towns of England (with L.
Powers).
=Silsbee, Mrs. Marianne Cabot [Devereux].= 1812-1889. A Boston writer
who published A Half Century in Salem, and several compilations of
poems. _Hou._
=Silver, Thomas.= _N. J._, 1813-1888. A civil engineer well known as an
inventor. A Trip to the North Pole, or Theory of the Origin of Icebergs.
=Simmons, William Johnson.= _S. C._, 1849- ----. A Baptist minister of
African birth who has published Men of Mark.
=Simms, Jeptha Root.= _Ct._, 1807-1883. A once popular writer of Fort
Plain, New York. History of Schoharie County; The American Spy: Nathan
Hale; The Frontiersman; Trappers of New York.
=Simms, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. Nephew of J. R. Simms, _supra_.
A writer on physiognomy. Nature’s Revelations of Character; Book of
Scientific Lectures; Health and Character; Practical and Scientific
Physiognomy; Human Faces: What They Mean.
=Simms, William Gilmore.= _S. C._, 1806-1870. A voluminous romancer and
verse-writer of Charleston, long popular but now little read. Among
his thirty romances, The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy Rivers; Martin
Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe, are as well known as any; and of
some twelve volumes of verse, Atalantis; Lays of the Palmetto; Areytos,
or Songs and Ballads of the South, are the most characteristic. Other
works of his include, A History of South Carolina; Lives of Marion,
General Greene, Captain John Smith, Chevalier Bayard. _See Allibone’s
Dictionary; Life by Trent. Stone’s First Editions of American Authors._
_Lov._
=Simonds, William.= “Walter Aimwell.” _Ms._, 1822-1859. A Boston
journalist who was a very popular writer for young people. The Aimwell
Stories; The Boys’ Own Guide; Boys’ Book of Morals and Manners.
=Simpson, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1824-1888. A naval officer of prominence,
rear-admiral from 1884. Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; The Naval Mission
to Europe; Report of the Gun Foundry Board.
=Simpson, Henry.= _Pa._, 1790-1868. A Philadelphia author who published
Lives of Eminent Philadelphians.
=Simpson, James Hervey.= _N. J._, 1813-1883. A colonel of engineers
and brevet brigadier-general in the United States army. A Military
Reconnoissance from Santa Fé to the Navajo Country in 1849. The
Shortest Route to California; Coronado’s March in Search of the Seven
Cities of Cibola. _Lip._
=Simpson, Matthew.= _O._, 1811-1884. A Methodist bishop famous as a
pulpit orator. Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of Methodism;
Sermons; Cyclopædia of Methodism. _See Life of, by G. R. Crooks,
supra._ _Har. Meth._
=Sims, Clifford Stanley.= _Pa._, 1839-1896. A lawyer of Arkansas,
and latterly of New Jersey, whose principal work is The Origin and
Signification of Scottish Surnames.
=Sims, James Marion.= _S. C._, 1813-1883. A celebrated surgeon of New
York city to whose influence is due the establishment of gynæcology
as a department of medicine. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery;
Ovariotomy; The Story of My Life. _See Life of, by T. A. Emmet, supra._
_Ap._
=Sinclair, Carrie Bell.= _Ga._, 1837- ----. A verse-writer of
Philadelphia. Poems; Heart Whispers, or Echoes of Song.
=Skene, Alexander Johnston Chalmers.= _S._, 1837-1900. A Brooklyn
physician, professor of gynæcology in Long Island College Hospital from
1884. Diseases of the Bladder in Women; Diseases of Women from the
Standpoint of the Physician. _Ap._
=Skinner, Charles Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A journalist and
littérateur of Brooklyn, associate editor of The Eagle. Villon the
Vagabond, and other plays; Myths and Legends of Our Own Land; Nature in
a City Yard. _Cent. Lip._
=Skinner, Otis Ainsworth.= _Ms._, 1807-1861. A Universalist minister
of Boston and elsewhere. Family Prayer Book; Sermons on Doctrinal
Subjects; Universalism Defended; Letters on Revivals; Moral Duties of
Parents, are his principal works. _See Life of, by T. B. Thayer, infra._
=Skinner, Thomas Harvey.= _N. C._, 1791-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman
of New York city, professor of sacred rhetoric in Union Seminary,
1848-71. Religion of the Bible; Aids to Preaching and Hearing;
Discussions in Theology; Thoughts on Evangelizing the World. _Ran._
=Slade, Daniel Denison.= _Ms._, 1823-1896. A physician and scientist,
professor of zoölogy at Harvard University from 1871. Diphtheria: its
Nature and Treatment; Twelve Days in the Saddle, a Journey in New
England in 1883. Evolution of Horticulture in New England. _Put._
=Slaughter, Philip.= _Va._, 1808-1890. Cousin of W. B. Slaughter,
_infra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, historiographer of the
diocese. The Colonial Church in Virginia; Man and Woman, are his most
important writings.
=Slaughter, William Bank.= _Va._, 1798-1879. A Wisconsin lawyer of note
who published Reminiscences of Distinguished People I Have Met.
=Sleeper, John Sherburne.= _Ms._, 1794-1878. A shipmaster and
subsequently a journalist of Boston, editor of The Journal, 1834-54.
Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; Mark
Rowland, a Tale of the Sea.
=Slenker, Mrs. Elmina [Drake].= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A writer living at
Snowville, Virginia. Studying the Bible; John’s Way; The Darwins; Mary
Jones; Little Lessons for Little Folks.
=Slicer, Henry.= _Md._, 1801-1874. A Methodist clergyman, eight times
chaplain of the United States Senate. Appeal on Christian Baptism;
Discourse on Duelling, which materially helped forward the passage of
the anti-duelling law in Congress.
=Sloan, Samuel.= _N. C._, 1815-1884. An architect of Philadelphia.
City and Suburban Architecture; Constructive Architecture; The Model
Architect; Homestead Architecture. _Bai. Lip._
=Sloane, Thomas O’Conor.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A chemist of New
York city, on the editorial staff of The Scientific American. Home
Experiments in Science; Standard Electrical Dictionary.
=Sloane, William Milligan.= _O._, 1850- ----. A professor of history
at Columbia College. The French War and the Revolution; Life of James
M’Cosh, _supra_; Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. _Cent. Scr._
=Slosson, Mrs. Annie [Trumbull].= _Ct._, 184- - ----. An author of New
York city noted for the excellence of her short stories, and also known
as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of moths. Aunt Liefy;
Fishin’ Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehetabel Clark; Anna
Malann; The China Hunter’s Club. _Har. Ran._
=Sluter, George Ludewig.= _G._, 1837- ----. A Lutheran clergyman,
pastor at Arlington, New Jersey, from 1881. History of Our Beloved
Church; Life of Tiberius; The Religion of Politics, are his principal
writings.
=Smalley, Eugene Virgil.= _O._, 1841-1899. A journalist of St. Paul.
History of the Northern Pacific Railroad; History of the Republican
Party.
=Smalley, George Washburn.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A noted journalist who
was the London correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1867-95, and from
1895 American correspondent of The London Times. London Letters, and
Some Others; Studies of Men. _Har._
=Smalley, John.= _Ct._, 1734-1820. A Congregational clergyman, pastor
at New Britain from 1758 till his death. National and Moral Inability;
Universal Salvation.
=Smart, Mrs. Helen Hamilton [Gardener].= _Va._, 1853- ----. A Boston
novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the furtherance of
social reforms. An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son, My Lord?;
Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?; Pushed by
Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; The Fortunes of Margaret Weld. _Ar._
=Smedes, Mrs. Susan [Dabney].= _Mi._, 1840- ----. A Mississippi writer
now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a Southern Planter is much
valued as an accurate picture of Southern life.
=Smith, Arthur Donaldson.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. An African explorer.
Through Unknown African Countries.
=Smith, Ashbel.= _Ct._, 1805-1886. A Texas politician and physician.
Account of the Geography of Texas; Permanent Identity of the Human Race.
=Smith, Augustus William.= _N. Y._, 1802-1866. An educator who was
professor of mathematics at Wesleyan University, 1831-51, and president
of that institution from 1851. Elementary Treatise on Mechanics.
=Smith, Buckingham.= _Ga._, 1810-1871. A Spanish-American scholar and
antiquary of note, twice secretary of the United States legation at
Mexico, and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many publications
are, Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of the Pima, or
Nevome; Coleccion de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida;
Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida.
=Smith, Charles.= _Pa._, 1765-1836. Son of William Smith, 1st, _infra_.
A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Treatise on the Land Laws of
Philadelphia.
=Smith, Charles Adam.= _N. Y._, 1809-1879. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor
at Rhinebeck, New York, and elsewhere. The Catechumen’s Guide; Men of
the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; Inlets
and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches; Popular Exposition of the
Gospels (with J. Morris). _Lip._
=Smith, Charles Henry.= “Bill Arp.” _Ga._, 1826-1903. A lawyer and
journalist of Rome, Georgia, well known as a humorous contributor to
The Atlanta Constitution. Bill Arp’s Letters; Bill Arp’s Scrap Book:
The Farm and the Fireside: A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War;
Georgia as a Colony and State, 1733-1893. _Gi._
=Smith, Daniel.= _Ct._, 1806-1852. A Methodist clergyman of New York
State very active in the temperance cause. Wisdom in Miniature; Gems
of Female Biography; Anecdotes for the Young; Teachers’ Assistant;
Lectures to Young Men; Book of Manners; Anecdotes of the Christian
Ministry. _Meth._
=Smith, Edward Delafield.= _N. Y._, 1826-1878. A lawyer of New York
city. Avidæ, a poem; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a poem; Reports of Cases
in the New York Court of Common Pleas; Addresses to Juries in Slave
Trade Trials.
=Smith, Eli.= _Ct._, 1801-1857. A Congregational missionary at Beirut.
Missionary Researches in Armenia (1853); and an Arabic translation of
the Bible.
=Smith, Elias.= _Ct._, 1769-1846. A Congregational clergyman of
Massachusetts. The Clergyman’s Looking-Glass; History of Anti-Christ;
Sermons on the Prophecies, are among his writings.
=Smith, Elihu Hubbard.= _Ct._, 1771-1798. A physician and verse-writer
of New York city. Edwin and Angelina, an opera; American Poems,
Original and Selected.
=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes [Prince].= _Me._, 1806-1893. Wife of Seba
Smith, _infra_. A once prominent writer of prose and verse, who was
the first woman lecturer in America. Her later years were passed in
Hollywood, South Carolina. Among her many works are, The Sinless Child,
and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed public attention
to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or
Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha and Lily; The
Western Captive.
=Smith, Erasmus Peshine.= _N. Y._, 1814-1882. A jurist and political
economist. Manual of Political Economy.
=Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle [Platt].= _N. Y._, 1837-1886. An
ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. _See
Memorial, 1890._
=Smith, Ethan.= _Ms._, 1762-1849. A Congregational clergyman, city
missionary of Boston, 1832-49. A View of the Trinity; A View of the
Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the
ten tribes of Israel. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M. [Bryce].= _Vt._, 1852- ----. A fiction-writer
of Dubuque. Winsome but Wicked; The Parson’s Sin; Our Money-Makers, a
poultry book.
=Smith, Florence.= _N. Y._, 1845-1871. A verse-writer of New York city
who published Piero’s Painting, and Other Poems.
=Smith, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge].= _See Griswold, Mrs. Frances._