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He was born on December 28, 1866, in London, England, United Kingdom. His parents, William Martin Smith and Anne (Powis), were natives of Shropshire.
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He was born on December 28, 1866, in London, England, United Kingdom. His parents, William Martin Smith and Anne (Powis), were natives of Shropshire.
The boy's early education was obtained in private schools at Leominster, Hereford, and at Dawlish, Devon. In 1881 he successfully passed the entrance examination for Cambridge.
He graduated from Des Moines College with the degree of A. B. in 1893. In the summer of 1894 enrolled as a graduate student in Semitics in the first summer session of the new University of Chicago. A year later he enrolled at Chicago as a candidate for the degree of Ph. D. in Semitics. On July 1, 1899, he was awarded that degree cum laude.
During adolescence Smith had chosen a scholarly career as his goal and his interest had turned to Bible study. Finding further progress blocked in his native land, he emigrated in 1883 to Denison, Iowa. Here he worked for a time on the farm of an uncle but soon became teacher of the local school.
In 1889 he found his way to Des Moines College, where he joined the Baptist Church. Here he supported himself by teaching Greek to beginners and by arduous manual toil; yet he took a prominent part in extra-curricular activities. He became instructor in Greek in Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage, Iowa. A year later he gave up his teaching post and was appointed to the teaching staff of the department of Semitics as docent.
By his work he had attracted the attention of President William Rainey Harper, who shortly made him his literary secretary. He now entered upon a period of approximately seven years devoted almost exclusively to research under the direction of this brilliant scholar and commanding personality. The fruitful association which ensued came as a direct result of Smith's tenacity of purpose and devotion to exact knowledge in which he had schooled himself during the early years of his rigorous self-discipline. Soon the personnel of the original Semitics group at Chicago was tragically and rapidly depleted by the untimely deaths of George S. Goodspeed, the Oriental historian, President Harper, and his brother, the Assyriologist, Robert Francis Harper. These calamities made Smith's rapid advancement imperative.
He became assistant professor in 1908, associate professor in 1912, and in 1915 was made professor and charged with the editorship of the American Journal of Semitic Languages, in succession to R. F. Harper. He fulfilled the duties of both positions with distinction till the day of his death.
His standing was recognized by the fraternity of Orientalists in his appointment in 1927 as annual professor in the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. His death occurred on 26 September 1932.
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Smith was interested in the historical background of the whole ancient Near Eastern world, and he preferred to display a great insight in relating the Hebrew experience to the total picture of the development of civilization in that world.
He was a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis and the American Oriental Society.
Throughout his life he displayed an extraordinary tenacity of purpose.
His marriage to Catherine McKlveen of Chariton, Iowa, was on September 19, 1899.