The origin and history of Grace church, Jamaica, New York . to a larger workfor him. While there, he was elected President of Trinity College,where he had a distinguished career of twenty years, inwhich that college made great progress in every way, andenlarged its finances, buildings and the number of its stu-dents. Dr. Smith, as President of this church institution,received numerous honors. The degree of S. T. D. was conferred upon him by Co-lumbia University in 1887. He was made Doctor of Lawsby Trinity the same year, Doctor of Divinity by WilliamsCollege in 1889, and by Yale in 1901, and h
The origin and history of Grace church, Jamaica, New York . to a larger workfor him. While there, he was elected President of Trinity College,where he had a distinguished career of twenty years, inwhich that college made great progress in every way, andenlarged its finances, buildings and the number of its stu-dents. Dr. Smith, as President of this church institution,received numerous honors. The degree of S. T. D. was conferred upon him by Co-lumbia University in 1887. He was made Doctor of Lawsby Trinity the same year, Doctor of Divinity by WilliamsCollege in 1889, and by Yale in 1901, and having beenretired as Professor Emeritus in 1904, he went abroad. What Dr. Smith thought of his people and church inJamaica was acknowledged in his eloquent sermon at theconsecration of the Church after the erection of the newsanctuary in 1902. One of the most important works for Grace Church atthe close of Dr. Smiths administration was the publica-tion by Mr. Henry Onderdonk, Jr., of the Antiquities ofthe Parish Church, Jamaica, with a Continuation of the. l\v\. (livoKi;!-: Smith. D. !).. LL. D.( IMioUigraph Talxrii in iS:_4.)
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