SMITH Hezekiah Bradley, inventor, born in Bridgewater, Vermont, 24 July, 1816; died in Smithville, Burlington County, New Jersey, 3 November, 1887. He learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, and became an inventor and manufacturer of wooden machinery. He settled in Woodbury, Massachusetts, about 1860, engaged in the manufacture of window-blinds, and invented a machine that cut and cleansed forty mortises a minute, for which the Massachusetts mechanical association presented him with a gold medal. He subsequently took out more than forty patents for original inventions. He established a wood-manufactory in Smithville, New Jersey, in 1871, which settlement was named in his honor, and spent large sums in building model houses, hails, and places of amusement for his workmen. He was elected to congress as a Democrat in 1878, served one term, and in 1882 was elected state senator, declining renomination.