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SMITH, William Andrew, clergyman, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 29 November, 1802; died in Richmond, Virginia, 1 March, 1870. He was admitted to the Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1825, became agent of Randolph Macon college in 1833, and was subsequently pastor of Methodist churches in Petersburg, Richmond, Norfolk, and Lynchburg, Virginia He was a member of every Methodist general conference from 1832 till 1844, of the Louisville, Kentucky, convention, at which the Methodist Episcopal church, south, was organized in the latter year, and of every general conference of that body till his death. In 1846-'66 he was president of Randolph Macon college, and during his occupation of that office he also filled the chair of moral science there, and lectured in Virginia and North Carolina. He was transferred to the St. Louis conference in 1866, and was appointed by the general conference one of the commissioners on the part of the southern church to settle the property question with the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1869 he became president of Central university, Maine He edited the "Christian Advocate" at Richmond, Virginia, for several years, and published "Lectures on the Philosophy of Slavery," a defence of that institution as it existed in the southern states (Richmond, Virginia, 1860).
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