SMITH, George, historian, born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, 12 February, 1804; died in Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 10 March, 1882. His father, Benjamin, was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1801-'4, and held several minor offices of trust in his county. George was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1826, but retired from practice after five years, and served in the state senate in 1832-'6. He was an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Delaware county from the latter date till 1857, and was re-elected in 1861 for a term of five years. He was chosen the first superintendent of the Delaware county common schools in 1854, and for the subsequent twenty-five years was president of the school board of Upper Darby school district. He also devoted much attention to scientific pursuits, especially to geology. Dr. Smith was a founder of the Delaware county institute of science, and its president from 1833 until his death, presenting it with his valuable herbarium about 1875. He was also an honorary member of the Pennsylvania historical society, and a contributor on historical and scientific subjects to the press. He published several essays and "A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the Discovery of the Territory included within its Limits to the Present Time" (Philadelphia, 1862).--His son, Clement Lawrence, educator, born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, 13 April, 1844, was graduated at Haverford college, Pennsylvania, in 1860, and at Harvard in 1863. He was assistant professor of classics and mathematics at Haverford in 1863-'5, student of classical philology at Gottingen for one year in 1865-'6, travelled a year (1866-'7) in England and on the continent, about half of the time being spent in study and travel in Italy and Greece; then, after two years' study at home, assisted in the organization of Swarthmore college in 1869-'70, filling the chair of Greek and German. He became tutor in Latin at Harvard in 1870, in 1873 assistant professor, and in 1883 professor of the same, and since 1882 he has been dean of the college faculty. He has published several papers on philological and educational matters, and is now (1888) engaged, with Professor Tracy Peck, of Yale, in editing a "College Series of Latin Authors," several volumes of which are in an advanced state of preparation.