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SMITH, Benjamin Mosby, clergyman, born in Powhatan county, Virginia, 30 June, 1811. He was graduated at Hampden Sidney in 1829, and at the Virginia union theological seminary in 1832. He was tutor in Hebrew and introductory studies from that date till 1836, and was successively pastor of Presbyterian churches in Danville and Augusta county, Virginia, from 1840 till his appointment in 1854 to the chair of Oriental and biblical literature in Union seminary, which office he still (1888) holds. In 1858-'74 he was pastor of Hampden Sidney college church, and he was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in 1876. Hampden Sidney gave him the degree of D. D. in 1845. Dr. Smith exercises much influence in the affairs of his church in Virginia. He has published numerous sermons and addresses, " A Commentary on the Psalms and Proverbs" (Glasgow, 1859; Knoxville, Tennessee, 1883), and "Questions on the Gospels " (Richmond, Virginia, 1868).
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