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SMITH, James Wheaton, clergyman, born in Providence, Rhode Island, 26 June, 1823. He was graduated at Brown in 1848, and at Newton theological seminary in 1851. In 1853 he became pastor of the Spruce street Baptist church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he continued in this relation until 1870, when he went out from it with a colony which established the Beth Eden church. He held the pastoral charge of this body until 1880. Impaired health obliging him to resign, he was thereupon elected pastor emeritus. He is the author of a "Life of John P. Croser" (Philadelphia, 1868). In 1862 he received from Lewisburg (Bucknel) university the degree of D. I).
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