SMITH, John

Date of Birth: December 21, 1752

Born City: Rowley

Born State/Country: MA

Parents: Joseph & Elisabeth Palmer S.

Date of Death: April 30, 1809

Death City: Hanover

Death State/Country: NH

Married: Mary Cleveland, 8 Feb. 1871; Susan Mason, 13 Jan. 1785.

EDUCATION B.A. Dartmouth, 1773; D.D. Brown, 1803.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Tutor Moor's Indian Charity Sch. (Hanover, NH), 1774-8; prof, class. langs. Dartmouth, 1778-1809; librarian, 1779-1809; trustee, 1788-1809; asso. preacher Dartmouth Coll. Ch., 1773-7.

PUBLICATIONS A Hebrew Grammar without Points (Boston, 1772); The Duty, Advantages, and Pleasure of Public Worship (sermon) (Hanover, NH, 1795); The New Hampshire Latin Grammar (Boston, 1802); M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Q. Fratrem Dialogi Tres De oratore, ed. Z. Pearce, notes & index by Smith (Walpole, NH, 1804); A Grammar of the Greek Language (Boston, 1809)

NOTES Smith devoted his adult life to Dartmouth, serving as professor of languages, college librarian, and pastor in the college church for over 30 years, where he lectured on theology on Saturday evenings. He declined a pastorate at the Congregational Church of West Hartford, CT, to take the chair of languages at Dartmouth. He knew Samaritan, Chaldaic, and Arabic languages and wrote grammars of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.