SMITH, Charles Perrin, genealogist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 , Jail., 1819; died in Trenton, New Jersey, 27 January, 1883. On attaining his majority he became proprietor and editor of "The National Standard" in Salem, New Jersey, and conducted it for eleven years. He served in the legislature of 1852, and was clerk of the supreme court of New Jersey in 1857-'72. He was early identified with the old Whig party, and during the Harrison campaign travelled extensively through the west and northwest, publishing a graphic account of his journey in a series of letters. During the civil war he was a secret agent of the state of New Jersey. Mr. Smith was a corresponding member of the Philadelphia numismatic and antiquarian society. He was the author of "Lineage of the Lloyd and Carpenter Families" (printed privately, Camden, New Jersey, 1870) and "Memoranda of a Visit to the Site of Mathraval Castle, with a Genealogical Chart of the Descent of Thomas Lloyd" (1875). See a memoir of him by Charles Hart in the " Necrology of the Philadelphia Numismatic and Antiquarian Society for 1883."