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SMITH, EUGENE H., was born in Oldtown, Me., Oct. 23, 1853. He finished his education at the Allen Brothers' English and Classical School in West Newton, Mass., and then studied dentistry with Dr. Samuel J. Shaw, of Marlborough, for two years, after which he entered the Harvard Dental School, gradu- ating in 1874 with the degree of D.M.D. For five years he was associated with Dr. L. D. Shepard. In 1881 he was appointed clinical instructor at Harvard College, in the absence of the professor of operative dentistry. From 1883 to 1885 he was chairman of the board of instruction. In 1890 he was appointed to the faculty and the chair of orthodentia. Doctor Sinith is vice-president of the American Academy of Dental Science, and a member of the Harvard Odontological Society, the American Dental Asso- ciation, the Boston Society for Dental Improvement, the Massachusetts Dental Society, and the Odonto- logical Society of New York.
SMITH, FRANKLIN, was born in Boston Oct. 16, 1831. He was a nephew of G. W. Smith, one of the pioneers in iron manufacture in Boston, and is to-day the president of the extensive G. W. & F. Smith Iron Company, which his uncle founded in 1836 in partnership with Mr. Nutting, the firm then being Nutting & Smith. After the retirement of
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partnership. Franklin Smith was admitted to the firm in 1853, when Mr. Felton retired, and the style of the concern became G. W. & F. Smith. In 1880 the corporation of the G. W. & F. Smith Iron Company was formed and succeeded to the busi- ness. Franklin Smith is the president, and his son, Elmer F. Smith, secretary of the corporation, which for a number of years has been one of the largest manufacturers of building and architectu- ral iron-work in New England. The wrought-iron works, Nos. 409 to 417 Federal street, and the foundry on Farnham street, Roxbury district, are fully equipped with the latest-improved machinery and appliances, and employment is furnished to upward of two hundred and fifty skilled workmen. They produce all kinds of cast and wrought iron work, structural work, girders, iron fronts, etc., and their business extends throughout all sections of the United States. They have furnished the iron for many of the fine buildings of Boston, among them the City Hall, the State House, the Post-Office dome, and fully seven-eighths of the large buildings on Summer and other streets in the " burnt district." They furnished the new Concord prison, the post- offices at Providence, R.I., Portsmouth, N.H., San Francisco, Cal., Waldoborough, Me., and Bristol, R.I., the Ogden-Goelet house at Newport, and a large number of the large buildings, both public and pri- vate, in the Back Bay district. Mr. Smith is an active member of the Master Builders' Association and of the Charitable Mechanic Association. He is also connected with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and Masonic bodies. He resides in Boston, on Columbus avenue.
(Perkins) Smith, natives of New Hampton, N.H., was born in that town April 5, 1849. He fitted for college at the New Hampton Literary Institute, and graduated from Bates College, Lewiston, Me., in 1873. He began the study of law there the same year, in the office of United States Senator William P. Frye, and was admitted to that bar in 1875. He came to Boston the same year, and took a course of lectures in the Boston University Law School ; then he began practice with Horace R. Cheney. He has been associated with William H. Preble eleven years, at No. 23 Court street, in general commercial practice. In politics he is Republican. He resides in Everett, and represented Everett and Malden in the lower house of the Legislature in 1883 and 1884. He was chairman of the committee on roads and bridges, and was a member of the. committees on education and taxation. He is a trustee of the
Everett Town Library. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. On Oct. 31, 1876, he was married to Miss Sarah F. Weld, daughter of Charles E. Weld, of Buxton, Me. ; they have one daughter, Theodosia .Smith.
SMITH, G. WALDON, son of George K. and Anna M. (Loch) Smith, was born in the South Nov. 24,
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. . 1859. He was educated in the Philadelphia public schools and the University of Pennsylvania. He
SMITH, GEORGE E., son of David H. and Esther also gained his first business experiences in Phila- delphia. For several years he did newspaper work on the various newspapers of that city and Balti- more, and in 1876 first engaged in the photographic profession, which he has since followed with marked success. After having served in various responsible positions for some of the leading houses of Phila- delphia, Baltimore, and New York, he established himself in Boston. This was in 1886. He at once became one of the prominent figures in the photo- graphic fraternity, and early won a place among the leaders in his line. He has established branches of his Boston establishment in Portland and Okl Orchard, Me. ; Amherst, Williamstown, and South Hadley, Mass. ; and Middletown, Conn. Mr. Smith is one of the youngest men among the prominent photographers of the day.
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Nancy (Churchill) Smith, both natives of Maine, number of fine residences in different sections of was born in Cornish, that State, Feb. 2, 1832. He the city. Mr. Smith is an active member of the Master Builders' and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Associations. He was married in 1854 to Miss Louisa Morse, of Edgartown. He resides in the Dorchester district. prepared for college at Parsonsfield Seminary, Bridgton Academy, and Standish Academy in his native State, and graduated from Bowdoin in 1854, and the Harvard Law School in 1860. He was ad- mitted to practice in Portland, Me., Feb. 2, 1860, and continued there and in Fryeburg until 1867, when he came to Boston. Here he has been in practice alone ever since, his office at No. 10 Tre- mont street. Among his associates may be men- tioned John G. Stetson, Ambrose Eastman, Daniel C. Linscott, all classmates. In politics he is Republican. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association. On Dec. 24, 1861, he was married to Mary Sherburne Dana, daughter of the late Gov. John Winchester Dana, of Maine. . They have one son, Winchester Dana. Mr. Smith resides in Hyde Park and is a member of the Episcopal church.
SMITH, HERBERT LLEWELLYN, M.D., was born in Hudson, N.H., June 6, 1862. After graduating from the high school at Nashua, he entered Dart- mouth College, graduating in 1882. In 1883 he was a teacher in the high school at Hanover, N.H. Then he came to Boston and entered the Harvard Medical School, occupying his leisure hours in teach- ing in the Boston Evening School. In 1887 he received his degree of M.D. from the Medical School. In 1886 he was house surgeon to the Boston City Hospital, and a year later was assistant superintendent, resigning this office in November, 1889, to practise for himself. In 1890 he was elected professor of surgery in the Boston Dental College, a position he now holds. Dr. Smith was married Sept. 24, 1890, to Miss. Sallie S. Wolfe, of Charlestown.
SMITH, JAMES, was born in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, April 14, 1831. He was educated in the schools there and learned his trade as mason in Lawrence, Mass., beginning in 1851. He started in business for himself as contractor and builder in Boston in 1872, immediately after the great fire, and did much towards rebuilding the burnt district. Since that time he has had a large number of heavy contracts, the execution of which has placed him in the front rank of master builders of the city. Among his important works are the Montgomery Building, the Sears Building, and the Hart Building, in Boston ; Baker's large chocolate- mills, in Milton ; Morse Brothers' " Rising Sun" polish manufactory, in Canton ; and St. Paul's School, in Concord, N.H. He has also erected a large
SMITH, J. HEBER, M.D., son of Rev. Joseph Smith and grandson of Rev. Daniel Smith, of Maine, was born in Bucksport, Me., Dec. 5, 1842. He re- ceived his preliminary education in the public schools of Boston and Haverhill, Mass., subsequent to which, on account of continued ill-health in youth, he pursued his studies several years under private tuition. He graduated in medicine March, 1866, at the Hahnemann Medical College, Phila- delphia, valedictorian of his class. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medi- cal Society since 1867, holding the office of presi- dent in 1884, and for some years chairman of its bureau of materia medica ; and of the American Institute. of Homeopathy since 1869, in 1889 chairman of its bureau of materia medica. He is author of a number of original papers, which have formed a portion of current medical literature, and some of which have been incorporated in permanent form in the cyclopedias. From the establishment of the Boston University School of Medicine in 1873, he has held the position of professor of materia medica in that school. From 1883 he has been one of the admitting and attend- ing physicians of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, and also one of its trustees, He is a member of the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society, and is still engaged in the active practice of his profession at No. 279 Dartmouth street. In 1891 Dr. Smith was. elected president of the Parental Home Association, a chartered society organized under the laws of the Commonwealth for the education of poor children in the various industrial arts and the branches of study taught in the common schools. On Sept. 3, 1868, he married Mary A. Greene, daughter of Joseph H. Greene, of Melrose, Mass.
SMITH, JONATHAN JASON, M.D., son of E. H. and Elmira Smith, was born in New Hampton, N.H., July 17, 1837. He secured his early schooling in the common schools and the New Hampton Academy. At the age of nineteen he entered the commercial college of Payson & Hanneford in Boston, and graduated therefrom in 1850. He next took a position in Waltham, in the American Watch Factory, where he remained until 1867. That
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Harvard Law School in 1860. He began practice in the office of Henry W. Paine, with whom he remained closely associated until 1882. After 1882, and until his death, Mr. Smith and his brother-in-law, Melville M. Weston, occupied offices together at No. 13 Exchange street, adjoin- ing those of the late Sidney Bartlett. During these years he was frequently associated with Mr. Bartlett in important cases. Early in his career Mr. Smith took a leading place in his profession, and enjoyed a large and ever-increasing practice, a great part of which was derived from brother lawyers who sought his aid as senior counsel. The resolutions adopted at the bar meeting held to take action on his death truly expressed the affection and es- teem with which he was regarded :
Without fear and without reproach in his office as coun- sellor of the court, he enjoyed, as we are proud to believe, its unreserved confidence and respect. To a full and exact knowledge of the law, and a singular mental aptitude for its practice, he joined generous scholarship and broad literary culture, so that his advocacy was marked by dignity and grace, as well as by intelligence, precision, and vigor. Of the strictest integrity and most delicate sense of honor, he was uniformly courteous, generous, and kindly in his dealings with his brethren, so that association with him at the bar tended always to maintain the best standard of honor among gentle- men of our profession.
his studies until 1875, when he entered Harvard. Graduating from the medical department of the college in 1878, he made a short trip abroad. Upon his return he established himself in Boston and began the practice of his profession, at which he has since continued, meeting with marked suc- cess. For a time Dr. Smith was established on Tremont street, but in 18So he removed to his present residence on Bowdoin street, where he has his office. Dr. Smith is a member of the Massa- chusetts and Suffolk Medical Societies, and of the Harvard Medical School Association. He was first married in Waltham, in 1860, to Miss Elizabeth O., daughter of Jonathan and Mahala Weeks, of Hill, N.H. She died in 1876. His second marriage was in 1881, to Mrs. Rebecca B. Warren, of Boston. Of the first union four children were born, only one of whom is now living, -a son, who graduated from Harvard in 1892.
SMITH, ROBERT DICKSON, son of Dr. John De Wolfe and Judith Wells (Smith) Smith, was born in Brandon, Miss., April 23, 1838; died in Boston May 30, 1888. His boyhood was passed in ROBERT D. SMITH. Hallowell, Me., where his parents settled a few years after his birth. He was graduated from His life was devoted to the practice of the law, Harvard College in the class of 1857, and from the and his only excursion into politics was made in
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1876, when he sat as a member of the lower house of the Legislature. He declined a nomination for Congress, and at different times appointments as judge of the superior and of the supreme courts. He delivered the Fourth of July oration before the city authorities in 1880. He was an overseer of Harvard College from 1878 until his death, and was a member of the Union, Wednesday Evening, Cen- tury, and various other clubs. He married Miss Paulina Cony Weston, a daughter of the late George Melville Weston, of Washington, D.C., and a first cousin of Chief Justice Fuller. She and three children survived him: a son, Robert Dickson Weston, and two daughters, Alice Weston and Paulina Cony Smith.
SMITH, WILLIAM FRENCH, M.D., was born in East Stoughton (now Avon), Mass., July 11, 1853. He enjoys the distinction of having descended, on his father's side, from Peregrine White, the first white child born in New England. His mother is a lineal descendant of John Alden and Priscilla. He fin- ished his education in the high schools in Green- field and Somerville, and entering Harvard College, graduated in 1875. He then went abroad and entered the German University at Göttinger, study- ing under the special care of Prof. F. Wöhler, and there received the degree of Ph.D. He returned to America in 1877, and began practice as an analyst, continuing until he succeeded Dr. Hayes, as State assayer, in 1880, which position he still holds. Dr. Smith is a member of the French and the German chemical societies, and has contributed much to science in the way of experiments and literature pertaining to analytical chemistry. He was married in 1875 to Miss Juliet Griffin, of Somerville.
SMITH, WINFIELD SCOTT, M.D., son of the late Jacob Smith, of Chatham, Mass., was born in Chat- ham Feb. 11, 1861. He was educated in Boston, prepared for college at the English High School and by private tuition, and entering Boston Univer- sity, graduated A.B. in 1882 and M.D. in 1883. He was then appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school of the Boston Uni- versity, and afterwards lecturer on anatomy, which position he now holds. He is also assistant surgeon to the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital. He is a member of the Massachusetts and the Boston Homeopathic Medical Societies, and of the Boston Surgical and Gynæcological Society.
SNOW, SAMUEL, son of Caleb H. and Sarah (Drew) Snow, natives of Boston and Duxbury respectively,
was born in Duxbury Nov. 18, 1832. The father was the author of Snow's " History of Boston," and edited most of Bowen's books on Boston. He was also a practising physician. He died in 1835 at the age of thirty-nine, being one of the first literary men of Boston in his day. Samuel Snow graduated from Brown University in 1856, studied law in Har- vard and with Caleb W. Loring, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He has been continuously in practice ever since, his office now being at No. 4 Pemberton square. He has chamber practice, hand- ling trusts, etc. Mr. Snow was one of the earliest to seek the gold fields in California, arriving there by ship " Niantic, " via Panama, July 5, 1849, and he is now president of the New England Associated Cali- fornia Pioneers of 1849. He is Republican in poli- tics, and has been councilman and alderman in Cambridge, where he resides. He married Miss Ophelia A. Smith, who died leaving three living children : Mabel B., Anna Constance, and Laura C. Snow.
SOLEY, JOHN CODMAN, son of John J. and Elvira (Degen) Soley, was born in Roxbury Oct. 22, 1845. His early educational training was received in the grammar schools of his native town. He fitted for college in the Roxbury Latin School, entered Har- vard in the class of 1865, but left the college and entered the Naval Academy, Newport, R.I., Nov. 19, 1862. From 1862 to 1866 he served in the frigates " Macedonia " and " Savannah," and the corvettes " Marblehead," "Winnipeg," and "Swa- tara." He was graduated June 12, 1866 ; ordered to Sacramento the same year; was wrecked on the Coromandel coast of India June 19, 1867 ; remained in India three months, and returned to the United States in a British troop-ship. From 1870 to 1873 Lieutenant Soley served at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis as an instructor in ordnance and gunnery, and in command of the infantry bat- talion. He was then ordered to the European fleet, and joined the "Wabash," at Corfu, Greece, in August of that year. He was appointed flag-lieuten- ant to Admiral Case, who was in command ; and was present at Carthagena during the fights between the Republican troops and the Communists. In 1874 he returned to the United States, and served in the squadron at Key West as flag-lieutenant to Admiral Case, who was then appointed commander- in-chief of the United States forces assembled in an- ticipation of a war with Spain. He was transferred to the "Franklin," returned to Europe in May, 1874, and was appointed February, 1875, dag-lieu- tenant to Admiral Worden, commander-in-chief in
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European waters. In 1878 he returned to the Naval Academy as gunnery and tactical instructor, where he remained until June, 1880. He made a cruise on the coast as executive officer of the " May- flower " in the summer of 1878, with cadet en- gineers. In June, 1880, he was ordered as executive of the frigate " Constellation" for a cruise on the coast with cadet midshipmen. In the fall of 1880 he was ordered as executive of the sloop-of-war " Saratoga," and cruised on the coast until the fall of 1881. He took part in the Yorktown celebration in command of the Artillery Battalion of the Naval
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Brigade. He refitted at Boston in the winter of became associated with him, and was admitted to
1881-2, and sailed for Europe in the spring of 1882. In July of that year he was ordered to Paris as naval attaché of the legation. He returned to the United States in November, and received leave of absence. He entered business as a stock-broker in Boston, which is his present residence. In Feb- ruary, 1885, he was placed on the retired list of the navy on account of color-blindness. Mr. Soley is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; of the Algonquin, St. Botolph, Athletic, Naturalist, and Thursday Evening Clubs ; and the Military Historical Society of Mas- sachusetts. He is commodore of the Massachusetts Yacht Club, and a member of the Eastern and the Corinthian (of New York) Yacht Clubs. He is also commanding officer of the Naval Battalion, Massa-
chusetts Militia, and commissioner of the Massa- chusetts Nautical Training School. He edited the second edition of Cooke's "Naval Ordnance and Gunnery," and is author of papers on "Built-up Guns," "Naval Operations on Shore," " Naval Reserve and Naval Militia," " The Naval Brigade," and " Designs for Ships of War."
SOULE, LAWRENCE P., was born in Duxbury, Mass., March 9, 1831. He is a direct descendant of George Soule on his father's side, and of Gov- ernor Bradford on his grandmother's side, both of whom came over to America in 1620 on the " May- flower." Mr. Soule was educated in Duxbury, and then served an apprenticeship as mason with Charles Woodbury in Boston, beginning in 1850. After completing his time he served Mr. Woodbury as journeyman for several years. He began as a contractor and builder of country houses on his own account in Foxborough in 1860, and started his career in Boston in 1872. Among notable buildings erected by him are the Angelo Building on Congress street, the Rice Building on South street, New Eng- land Shoe and Leather Association Building on Bed- ford street, the Hotel Wesleyan, State Normal Art School, Hotel Royal, Hotel Cluney, Hotel Warren, Kennedy's Hotel, Brown Building on Lincoln street, the Riverside Press Building and Tool Works in Cambridge, a number of electric-light plants in various localities, fine residences in Brookline, and so on. Mr. Soule was one of the original nine who started the Master Builders' Association, and was its first vice-president, serving in that capacity in 1885-6-7, and then president for three years following, 1888-9-90. He is also an active mem- ber of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. In 1883 his son, Parker F. Soule, partnership in January, 1889, the firm becoming I .. P. Soule & Son.
SOUTHARD, LOUIS C., son of William L. and Lydia Carver (Dennis) Southard, was born in Port- land, Me., April 1, 1854. His father was a direct descendant of John Southworth, of Plymouth Col- ony fame, and his mother of Gov. John Carver. The name Southworth was formerly pronounced " Southard," and the branch of the family emigrat- ing to Maine ultimately changed the orthography to conform to the pronunciation. Louis C. was educated in the Portland public schools, the Boston English High School, and the Maine State College. He studied law under the direction of W. W. Thomas, jr., and Clarence Hale, of Portland, and in
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the Boston University Law School, and was ad- mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Maine
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in 1877. Establishing himself in North Easton, Mass., the same year, he was admitted to practise before the courts of this State. While pursuing his profession with success, he gave much attention to public matters. In 1884 he was nominated for representative in the lower house of the Legislature, but declined to stand; again nominated in 1886, and this time accepting the nomination, he was elected to represent the three towns of Easton, Mansfield, and Raynham. He served acceptably on the floor of the House, and in the com- mittee on the judiciary. In 1887 he was a mem- ber of the committee to represent the State at the centennial convention at Philadelphia, Pa., and the same year was a delegate to the national convention of the Republican League, in New York city. During that year, also, he assisted in the organization of the Republican Club of Easton, and was unanimously chosen its presi- dent, which position he still holds. In October, 1891, he was elected a member of the Republi- can State committee. In religious belief Mr. Southard is a Unitarian. He was married in Easton on June 1, 1881, to Miss Nellie, daughter of Joseph and Lucy A. (Keith) Copeland ; they have two children : Louis Keith and Frederick Dean Southard.
SPAULDING, JOHN, was born in Townsend Aug. 8, 1817, and is descended from Edward Spaulding, who came to New England about 1630 and first settled in Braintree, and now has descendants in Tewksbury, Chelmsford, and Townsend. His father was Deacon John Spaulding, who was born in Town- send on May 10, 1794, and was for years a leader in the Orthodox church of that place ; he married Mrs. Eleanor Bennett, of Boston, in 1814 ; second, Eliza Lawrence Spaulding, of Shirley, June 3, 1830 ; and third, Esther Pierce, of Townsend, May 22, 1834. His children were Eliza Ann, born Oct. 1, 1814 ; John, Aug. 8, 1817; Mary Heald, April 6, 1820; Sibyl, Sept. 12, 1822 ; Caroline Matilda, Oct. 18, 1824; Abel, Sept. 21, 1831 ; Ellen Maria, Nov. 13, 1842 ; Theodore Lyman, April 21, 1845 ; Lyman Beecher, Feb. 25, 1847 ; Theodore Eddy, May 3, 1849 ; and Ellen Rebecca Spaulding, Feb. 23, 1854. John Spaulding was educated in the public schools of Townsend, Mass., Phillips (Ando- ver) Academy, and at Yale College, receiving his degree of A.M. from the latter. After a period of study in the law-office of George Frederick Farley, of Groton, he was in 1851 admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Groton, owing no man a dollar and with a small sum of money securely in- vested in profitable railroad-stock. While studying in the office of Mr. Farley he was placed in charge of cases in the Magistrates' Court, and thus acquired some experience in the trial of cases. In this way he secured a class of business which, after he began practice on his own account, naturally fell into his hands - a practice which gradually extended even beyond the borders of Middlesex county, and which, skilfully managed as it was, secured to him at a very early period a prominent and lucrative stand- ing in his profession. His settlement in Groton was made in response to the request of many prominent citizens, who were anxious to have a young, active lawyer in their town ; and they not only provided him with an office as an inducement for him to remain with them, but their continued encourage- ment and aid were of essential service to him in getting a firm foothold at the bar. Here he remained about ten years. When the south part of the town became a prominent railroad-centre he followed the popular wave, and practised in that section until 1872, when he removed to Boston. It was largely due to his efforts and influence that Groton Junction, as it was called, and a part of the town of Shirley were incorporated; in 1871, as a new town under the name of Ayer. While prac- tising in Middlesex county the district courts were established, and when the first Northern Middlesex
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