SMITH, John, clergyman, born in Newbury, Massachusetts, 21 December, 1752; died in Hanover, New Hampshire, 30 April, 1809. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1773, and served as tutor there from 1774 till 1778, when he became professor of languages in the college, holding that office and that of college pastor until his death. Brown gave him the degree of D. D. in 1803. He was college librarian for thirty years, delivered lectures on systematic theology for two years, and published "Hebrew Grammar" (Hanover, 1772): " Latin Grammar" (1802); " Hebrew Grammar" (1803); an edition of "Cicero de Oratore, with Notes and a Brief Memoir of Cicero in English " (i804); a "Greek Grammar" (1809); and several sermons.--His wife, Susan Mason, born in Boston in 1765; died in 1845, was the daughter of Colonel David Mason. In her eightieth year she wrote a "Memoir" of her husband (Boston, 1843).