SMITH, Joseph, clergyman, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, 15 July, 1796; died in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 4 December, 1868. He was graduated at Jefferson college in 1815, studied at Princeton theological seminary, was licensed to preach in 1819, and became a missionary in Culpeper, Madison, and Orange counties. Va. He was principal of an academy in Staunton, Virginia, for several years, removed to Frederick city, Maryland, about 1832, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church there and principal of an academy. He was pastor of a church in Clairsville, Ohio, in 1840, and became president of Franklin college, New Athens. Ohio, in 1844, but resigned on account of his conservative views regarding slavery, resumed his former charge in Frederick city, Maryland, and was president of the newly organized college there. He became general agent of the synods of the Presbyterian church for the territory embracing western Pennsylvania, northwestern Virginia, and eastern Ohio. He subsequently held charges in Round Hill and Greensburg, Pennsylvania He received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson college. His publications include "Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism" (Philadelphia, 1854), and "History of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania" (1857).