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He was born on June 30, 1841 at Center Harbor, New Hampshire, United States, the son of Dr. William Hutchings Smart, a successful physician, and Nancy (Farrington) Smart, of old New England stock.
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He was born on June 30, 1841 at Center Harbor, New Hampshire, United States, the son of Dr. William Hutchings Smart, a successful physician, and Nancy (Farrington) Smart, of old New England stock.
He was educated at home and at the Concord high school.
He began his career as a teacher when he was eighteen years of age. After one year in a district school he became the principal of a graded school at Laconia, New Hampshire, in 1860 and taught in this and other local schools for three more years, becoming meanwhile an associate editor of the Journal of Education published at Manchester, New Hampshire.
He removed in 1863 to Toledo, Ohio, where he was so successful as a school principal that in 1865 he was named superintendent of schools at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here he successfully dealt with problems involving the relations of public and parochial schools, and thereby confirmed a reputation as an able administrator.
He was president of the Indiana State Teachers' Association, 1871; state superintendent of public instruction, 1874-80; president of the National Education Association, 1880; a trustee of Indiana University at Bloomington, 1882; and president of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 1890. He was a trustee of the state normal school for six years and a member of the Indiana state board of education for twenty-seven years. In 1873 he was assistant commissioner of Indiana to the Vienna exposition; in 1878 United States commissioner to the Paris exposition; and in 1891 commissioner from the United States Department of Agriculture to the argricultural congress at The Hague.
In 1883 he became president of Purdue University. Its initial years had been weak and struggling, but under its new administrator it gained new lease of life. Smart worked so indefatigably to build up the university that he brought on his own death by overwork.
He died in 1900.
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On July 21, 1870, he married Mary H. Swan, daughter of a professor in Grinnell College, Iowa.