SMYTH, Clement, R. C. bishop, born in Finlea, County Clare, Ireland, 24 January, 1810: died in Dubuque, Iowa, 27 September, 1865. He received his early education in his native village and in a college in Limerick, and afterward was graduated at Dublin university. He then entered a convent of the Presentation order in Youghal, and subsequently became a Trappist in the monastery of Mount Melleray, Waterford. He established a college in connection with the monastery, which is still one of the chief educational institutions in Ireland. Having completed his ecclesiastical studies, he was ordained a priest in 1844. He was sent by his brethren at the head of a body of Trappists to solicit alms in the United States during the Irish famine, and also to select a suitable place for a Trappist monastery. He landed in New York in the spring of 1849, and travelled extensively through the country, finally reaching Dubuque. Here he was offered by Bishop Loras a grant of land in Dubuque county, Iowa, which he increased by purchase to more than 1,600 acres. By good management and the manual labor of himself and his companions, he brought this farm into a state of great productiveness, and then founded on it the monastery of New Melleray, of which he was elected prior. He built a church for the congregation that he had organized in the neighborhood, and established a free school, which was largely attended by children of every denomination. Having increased the number of his monks to forty-seven, and placed the different institutions he had founded on a basis of great prosperity, he set out for St. Paul in 1856. In the following year he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Loras, of Dubuque, and he was consecrated on 3 May, with the title of Bishop of Thanasis in partibus. He succeeded to the bishopric in February, 1858. He at once essayed to finish the cathedral, which had been begun some time before, and soon had it ready for service, tie visited every part of the diocese, and made successful efforts to furnish priests and churches for the congregations that were springing up in every part of Iowa. During his episcopate the number" of churches increased from 50 to 84, with 8 chapels and 20 stations, the number of priests from 37 to 63, and that of Roman Catholics from 45,000 to over 90.000. The Sisters of Charity largely increased the number of their institutions, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was established in every parish.