. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ^> ^^-^o. THOMAS GUILFORD SMITH AMONG the various Smith famiUes in the United States, oneXA. of the oldest and foremost is that whose ancestors, chieflyof the Quaker faith, settled under William Penn at the ancientcity of Burhngton, New Jersey, and in its neighborhood. Pem-berton Smith of Philadelphia was a member of it, as the iden-tity of his given name with that of a near-by town mightindicate. He married Margaretta E. Zell of Philadelphia, andspent his hfe chiefly in that city. It was there that his son, thesubject of this sketch, was b
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ^> ^^-^o. THOMAS GUILFORD SMITH AMONG the various Smith famiUes in the United States, oneXA. of the oldest and foremost is that whose ancestors, chieflyof the Quaker faith, settled under William Penn at the ancientcity of Burhngton, New Jersey, and in its neighborhood. Pem-berton Smith of Philadelphia was a member of it, as the iden-tity of his given name with that of a near-by town mightindicate. He married Margaretta E. Zell of Philadelphia, andspent his hfe chiefly in that city. It was there that his son, thesubject of this sketch, was born, on August 27, 1839. There,too, the boy received his early education, in private and publicschools, and then in the Central High School. Thence he wentto the well-known Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy,New York, and in due time was graduated there, in 1861, withthe degree of civil engineer; two years later the Central HighSchool of Philadelphia gave him the degree of A. M. In 1899Hobart College, at Geneva, New York, conferred upon him thehonorary
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