The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . J. a. OK AMEKICAN BIOGRAPHY. 235 troductoiy Discourse at New Medical college,Crosby street (N. Y., 1837,8vo); Select Discourseon the Functions of the Nervous System (1840,12mo); Th
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . J. a. OK AMEKICAN BIOGRAPHY. 235 troductoiy Discourse at New Medical college,Crosby street (N. Y., 1837,8vo); Select Discourseon the Functions of the Nervous System (1840,12mo); The Mutations of the Earth (1846, 8vo);monograph upon the Moral and Physical Science (1853, 12mo). Dr. Smith edited the New YorkMedical and Physiological Journal in 1809, andwas a man of splendid talents. A handsome portraitof Dr. Smith, the gift of his son and daughter, resi-dent in New York city, hangs in the colleee died Feb. 9, 1865. & J. ierkc, House WIIiMER, William Holland, eleventh presi-dent of William, and Mary college, was born in Kentcounty, JId., Oct. 39, 1782, the fifth son of Simonand Ann Wilmer. He was educated at Washingtoncollege in Kent county and was ordained by BishopClaggett in 1808. He was appointed to the chargeof Chester parish, Maryland, but in 1812 he re-moved to Alexandria, Va.,Xjy*3>t^/ y. V where he had charge of t^l^ Af , C^^tCuf^cY St. Pauls church. He took an active part with Meadeand other young ministers in resuscitating theEpiscopal church in Virginia and ha,d much todo in securingthe election of Dr. Richard ChanningMoore to the Episcopate. In 1816 he was elected tothe charge of St. Johns church in Washington city,but declined the appointment. In 1818 he waspresident of the Education society of the District ofColumbia, of which he was one of the 1819 he commenced the publications of the Wash-ington Theological Repertory and furnishedmany of its leading articles till his
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