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See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874) , See also:American reformer and philanthropist, was See also:born in See also:Utica, New See also:York, on the 6th of See also:March 1797. After graduating at See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton See also:College in 1818, he assumed the management of the vast See also:estate of his See also:father, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Smith (1768-1837), See also:long a partner of See also:John See also:Jacob See also:Astor, and greatly in-creased the See also:family See also:fortune. About 1828 he became an active worker in. the cause of See also:temperance, and in his See also:home See also:village, Peterboro, he built one of the first temperance hotels in the See also:country. He became an abolitionist in 1835, after seeing an See also:anti-See also:slavery See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting at Utica broken up by a See also:mob. In 184o he took a leading See also:part in the organization of the See also:Liberty party, and in 1848 and 18.52 he was nominated for the See also:presidency by the remnant of this organization that had not been absorbed by the See also:Free See also:Soil party. An " See also:Industrial See also:Congress " at See also:Philadelphia also nominated him for the presidency in 1848, and the "See also:Land Reformers " in 1856. In 184o and in 1858 he was a See also:candidate for the governorship of New York on an anti-slavery See also:platform. In 18J3 he was elected to the See also:National See also:House of Representatives as an See also:independent, and issued an address declaring that all men have an equal right to the soil; that See also:wars are brutal and unnecessary; that slavery could be sanctioned by no constitution, See also:state or federal; that free See also:trade is essential to human See also:brother-See also:hood; that See also:women should have full See also:political rights; that the Federal See also:government and the states should prohibit the liquor See also:traffic within their respective jurisdictions; and that government See also:officers, so far as practicable, should be elected by See also:direct See also:vote of the See also:people. At the end of the first session he resigned his seat. After becoming an opponent of land See also:monopoly, he gave numerous farms of fifty acres each to indigent families, and also attempted to colonize tracts in N. New York with free negroes; but this experiment was a failure. Peterboro became a station on the " underground railroad "; and after 1850 Smith furnished See also:money for the legal expenses of persons charged with infractions of the Fugitive Slave See also:Law. With John See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, to whom he gave a See also:farm in See also:Essex See also:county, New York, he became very intimate, and from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time supplied him with funds, though it seems
without knowing that any of the money would be employed in an See also:attempt to incite a slave insurrection. Under the excitement following the See also:raid on Harper's See also:Ferry he became temporarily insane, and for several See also:weeks was confined in an See also:asylum in Utica. He favoured a vigorous See also:prosecution of the See also:Civil See also:War, but at its See also:close advocated a mild policy toward the See also:late Confederate states, declaring that part of the See also:guilt of slavery See also:lay upon the See also:North. He even became one of the securities for See also:Jefferson See also:Davis, thereby incurring the resentment of See also:Northern See also:radical leaders.
In See also:religion as in politics Gerrit Smith was a radical. Believing that sectarianism was sinful, he separated from the Presbyterian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church in 1843, and was one of the founders of the Church at Peterboro, a non-sectarian institution open to all Christians of whatever shade of belief. His private benefactions were See also:bound-less; of his gifts he kept no See also:record, but their value is said to have exceeded $8,000,000. Though a See also:man of See also:great See also:wealth his See also:life was one of marked simplicity. He died on the 28th of See also:December 1874, while on a visit to relatives in New York See also:City.
See O. B.
End of Article: SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
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