SMITH, John Hyatt, clergyman, born in Saratoga, New York, 10 April, 1824; died in Brooklyn, New York, 7 December, 1886. His father, a Presbyterian clergyman, gave him a thorough education, and he then engaged in business in Detroit, Michigan Deciding to study for the ministry, he removed to Albany, New York, and while preparing for that profession worked in a bank. He was licensed to preach in 1848, was pastor of Baptist churches in Poughkeepsie, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn, New York During his occupation of the last charge his advocacy of open communion ca, used the exclusion of Mr. Smith and his congregation from the Long Island Baptist association. He was elected to congress in 1880, as an Independent, receiving 22,085 votes, against 20,626 votes for Simeon B. Chittenden, Republican. For a time he did double duty in his church and in congress, but resigned his pulpit in September, 1881, and on the expiration of his congressional term became pastor of the East Congregational church, Brooklyn, New York His publications include " Gilead" (New York, 1863), and "The Open Door " (1870).