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Gerrit Smith

Birth	:	8 Jan 1854 New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Death	:	30 Mar 1922 New York, USA
Burial	:	West Cemetery, Madison, New Haven County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.2803001, -72.6138992
Description	:	Gerrit Smith, B.A. 1877 Born January 8, 1854, in Madison, Conn. Died March 30, 1922, in Nyack, N. Y. Gerrit Smith was born in Madison, Conn., January 8, 1854, the son of Andrew N. Smith, a farmer, and Lydia S (Kelsey) Smith. His ancestors came from England with Whitfield in 1639. The land upon which the summer home of the family now stands at "Canoe Harbor," East River, Conn., is a part of the tract which was deeded to the original settlers by Uncas, the last of the Mohicans. One of Gerrit Smith's ancestors was Geoffrey Smith, who was an early settler... Read More	Gerrit Smith, B.A. 1877 Born January 8, 1854, in Madison, Conn. Died March 30, 1922, in Nyack, N. Y. Gerrit Smith was born in Madison, Conn., January 8, 1854, the son of Andrew N. Smith, a farmer, and Lydia S (Kelsey) Smith. His ancestors came from England with Whitfield in 1639. The land upon which the summer home of the family now stands at "Canoe Harbor," East River, Conn., is a part of the tract which was deeded to the original settlers by Uncas, the last of the Mohicans. One of Gerrit Smith's ancestors was Geoffrey Smith, who was an early settler at Guilford, Conn., having gone there from Haddam. His paternal grandparents were Ezra and Martha (Stone) Smith, the latter being a direct descendant of Governor Leete of Connecticut. His mother was the daughter of John and Lydia (Bushnell) Kelsey. John Kelsey, who was the son of Job Kelsey, was a descendant of the Plymouth colonists, tracing his ancestry in a direct line to John and Priscilla Alden. Lydia BushnelFs parents were Nathan and Esther [or Hester] Lord Bushnell. Through them Gerrit Smith was connected with William A. Buckingham, the Civil War governor of Connecticut. This branch of the Bushnell family was descended from Lieut. William Bushnell, one of the earliest settlers of Saybrook, where the Kelseys were also living in the early days of its history. Gerrit Smith prepared himself for college, although he had previously attended Lee's Academy in Madison for a time. He lived at East River during his course at Yale, and in the vacations was employed by the U. S. Coast Survey. His appointments were a Junior oration and a Senior dissertation. He taught school at East River during 1877-78 and then entered the Yale School of Law, continuing to teach during this period, also. He received his LL.B. degree in 1880, and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut and New York two years later Upon completing his law course he had gone to New York and entered the office of William Q. Riddle (a non- graduate member of the Yale Class of 1854, who received the degree of B.A. at Harvard in 1855), and Joseph W. Howe. He eventually became a member of the firm of Howe & Riddle, the name of which was changed to Howe & Smith upon the death of Mr. Riddle in 1895. The firm was subsequently known as Howe, Smith &Howe, and still later as Howe, Smith & Sawyer At the time of his death Mr. Smith was senior part- ner in the firm, his practice being chiefly in connection with the administration of trust estates and corporation law. For many years he wrote the "Opinions" for the Journal of Commerce, although not over his own name. He contributed an article on Long Island and Brooklyn to Johnson's American Encyclopedia He lived in Brooklyn until 1893, and during this period was actively interested in mission school work. Since that time he had resided at Nyack. He had been president of the Nyack Board of Education, a trustee of the Public Library and the Congregational Church, and a director of the Y M C A. At the time of his death he was an elder in the First Reformed Church. He was a member of the Society of American Wars. Mr. Smith died March 30, 1922, at his home in Nyack,' from complications following influenza. His body was taken to his native town for burial He was married November 22, 1882, in New Haven, Conn., to Leila A , daughter of Charles and Amy (Williams) Wood, who died July 8, 1903. They had four children- Leila, who died in infancy, Reynold Webb (Ph B. 1907); Florence A., who died in childhood; and Helen Marguerite, a graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, who is the wife of C. Taylor Lee, '11 On October 4, 1904, Mr. Smith's second marriage took place, in New York City, to Mrs. Gertrude Hitchcock Diehl, daughter of Dr. Elizur Hitchcock (B.A. 1854) and Harriet (Read) Hitchcock, and widow of Daniel J. Diehl. They had one son, Wolcott. In addition to his wife, two sons, and his daughter, Mr. Smith is survived by three sisters, Lydia Bushnell Smith, Martha Stone Smith, and Mrs. Elizabeth Leete, and several nephews and nieces.

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Gerrit Smith's memorial is located at: West Cemetery, Madison, New Haven County, USA.
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Gerrit Smith death on 30 Mar 1922 in New York, USA
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Latitude: 41.2803001
Longitude: -72.6138992

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Andrew Norman Smith

(1828 - 1898)

Lydia B Kelsey Smith

(1826 - 1893)

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