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SMITH, Isaac Townsend, consul-general, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 12 March, 1813. He was educated at the Latin and the English high-schools in Boston, and at Captain Alden Partridge's military academy at Middletown, Connecticut He entered corn-inertial life, and as supercargo made several voyages to the East Indies, China, Manila, Singapore, Java, and Africa. Then he settled in New York, where as a merchant and ship-owner he conducted business for several years. He was an incorporator and for many years president of the Metropolitan savings-bank, and was a commissioner of emigration for the state of New York for several years. Mr. Smith was a presidential elector at the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and is Siamese consul-general for the United States. He has been a contributor to the " Magazine of American History" and other periodicals.
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