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He was born on June 30, 1811 at "Montrose, " Powhatan County, Virginia, United States, the son of Josiah and Judith Micheau (Mosby) Smith.
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He was born on June 30, 1811 at "Montrose, " Powhatan County, Virginia, United States, the son of Josiah and Judith Micheau (Mosby) Smith.
He was educated by private tutors and at Hampden-Sidney College, from which he graduated with first honors in 1829. From 1832 to 1834 he was a student at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and spent the next two years there as an assistant instructor. He made a special study of Semitic languages.
He taught in an academy at Milton, North Carolina, where he organized one of the first educational associations in the South.
In the meantime, April 19, 1834, he was licensed to preach by the West Hanover Presbytery, and on October 19, 1835, he was ordained. After leaving Union Seminary he traveled abroad for two years, chiefly in Prussia.
Returning to America, he held pastorates in Danville, Virginia (1838 - 40), Tinkling Spring and Waynesboro - where he also taught a classical school (1840 - 45), and at Staunton (1845 - 54). At the end of this last pastorate he served for a year as secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, in Philadelphia.
He then accepted a call to Union Theological Seminary, at Hampden-Sidney, Virginia, as professor of Oriental literature, which position he occupied until 1889, when he became professor emeritus.
For sixteen years (1858 - 74) he was co-pastor with Robert L. Dabney of the college church. In 1876 he was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the United States).
In 1839 his thoroughgoing report on the Prussian primary school system, which he had studied at first hand, was submitted by Governor Campbell to the Virginia House of Delegates. With Thomas Ritchie and R. G. Scott, he presented a report on primary schools to the Richmond Educational Convention of December 1841. This report was published the following year in the form of an appeal, "To the People of Virginia".
He took an active part in the Educational Association of Virginia (organized 1863), and sought unsuccessfully in 1869 to have it endorse the system of common schools inaugurated by the unpopular Underwood Reconstruction Convention of that year. At the initial meeting of the new board of education (1870), twelve county superintendents were chosen, of whom the first to take the field was Smith. He continued to serve as superintendent of Prince Edward County, in spite of many annoying difficulties, till 1882, when a political revolution in Virginia swept Dr. William H. Ruffner, state superintendent, and his appointees out of office.
Smith wrote frequently for the papers and for religious and educational journals: "The Merits and Defects of Prevailing Schemes of Common School Education in the United States"(1870). He published Family Religion (1859); The Poetical Books of the Holy Scriptures (1867), prepared in cooperation with A. R. Fausset; and Questions on the Gospels (1868).
He died in 1893.
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On October 31, 1839, he married Mary Moore Morrison, a daughter of Rev. James Morrison of New Providence. Five daughters and one son survived him.