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He was born on January 11, 1819 at Waitsfield, Vermont, United States, the son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, and a descendant of Samuel Smith who emigrated to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1634.
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He was born on January 11, 1819 at Waitsfield, Vermont, United States, the son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, and a descendant of Samuel Smith who emigrated to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1634.
Chauncey attended the village school and, for a time, an academy at Gouverneur, New York, working and teaching to pay his expenses. After two years at the University of Vermont, 1845-47, he left college to study law in the office of Henry Levenworth in Burlington.
He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and soon thereafter in Boston formed a partnership with Samuel W. Bates, which continued for many years.
During the 1850's Smith edited English Reports in Law and Equity (40 vols. , 1851 - 58), the first thirty volumes in collaboration with E. H. Bennett; these reports covered the period 1850-57. Smith also edited, with Samuel W. Bates, Cases Relating to the Law of Railways, Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States and in the Several States (2 vols. , 1854 - 56).
During the Civil War he held a confidential position with the War Department, acting as counsel to the provost marshal in Washington. After the war he returned to his practice in Boston. In 1877 he had approved as counsel the policy of Gardiner G. Hubbard to rent telephones instead of selling them and to issue all licenses subject to that condition. This policy was an essential factor in the development of the Bell System. The telephone litigation comprehended four groups of legal proceedings. Smith and his associate James J. Storrow took an active part as counsel in these cases.
He died in 1895.
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He was actively interested in civil service reform and in a lower tariff. His attitude toward industry and science amounted to reverence.
Quotations: It was his conviction, in his own words, that "the inventor is the chief agent in the progress of the world. "
Smith was of heavy build, nearly six feet tall, squareshouldered, round-headed, and square-jawed. He wore his heavy hair cut round and long like an old-fashioned wig. His expression was belligerent but the frequent twinkle in his blue eyes gave assurance of a very kindly disposition and sense of humor.
On December 10, 1856, he married Caroline E. Marshall of Cambridge. They had three children, and lived for many years at 121 Brattle Street, Cambridge, adjoining the home of the poet Longfellow.