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 . on, professor of lawand police; Dr. T. Jones, pro-fessor of chemistry and nat-ural philosophy, and Ferdi-nand S. Campbell, professorof mathematics. Dr. Smithwas the first layman to
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 . on, professor of lawand police; Dr. T. Jones, pro-fessor of chemistry and nat-ural philosophy, and Ferdi-nand S. Campbell, professorof mathematics. Dr. Smithwas the first layman to holdthe presidency, and in 1824 hedeemed it necessary to re-move the college to Richmondas the best means to rid thecollege of its ancient populardisadvantages and enable it tomake a new start. But in thisDr. Smith incurred the oppo-sition of John Tyler, on theboard of visitors, who voicedthe local feeling, and ThomasJefferson, who was then busy with the scheme offounding the university at Charlottesville, feared theeffect of the removal upon the liberality of the legis-lature to which he was then appealing for pecuniaryaid in favor of his pet enterprise. The united op-position defeated Smiths measure, and in 1835 heresigned. He resumed practice in New York city,and from 1831 to 1843 was president of the Collegeof physicians and surgeons. He published numer-ous addresses, lectures, and essays including, In-. 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
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