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<p> Smith, James (5), </p> <p> a Presbyterian minister, was, born in Scotch Valley, Blair Co., Pa., Sept. 5, 1819. His father was an elder in the Church at Hollidaysburg, of which the son afterwards became a member. He was graduated at Jefferson College in 1843, and entered [[Princeton]] Theological Seminary in the autumn. of the same year. After completing the course he graduated, and was licensed by the [[Presbytery]] of [[Huntingdon]] at Clearfield, Pa., Oct. 8, 1846. The following April he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Clarion, and was ordained as an evangelist by that presbytery Sept. 1, 1847. After preaching one year as an evangelist, he was again received into the Presbytery of Huntingdon in 1848, and in April, 1849, he was called to the pastorate of the Little Valley Church. He did not choose to be installed as pastor, but supplied the pulpit until 1855. [[Joining]] the Allegheny Presbytery, he was, soon after leaving his former charge, installed by the last-named presbytery over the Church at Bridgewater. In 1857 he again changed his relation, and was installed pastor of the Church at Mount Joy by the [[Donegal]] Presbytery. Here he continued to labor with great acceptability and usefulness among a people strongly attached to him, and he to them, for a period of ten years, when, owing to the failure of his health, he was obliged to submit to the dissolution of the pastoral relation. For the last eight years of his lite feeble health prevented him from performing ministerial duties, and he gradually declined until his death, Oct. 4, 1875. (W.P.S.) </p>
<p> Smith, James (3), </p> <p> a minister of the [[Methodist]] Episcopal Church, was born in [[Washington]] Co., Pa., in 1791. He was converted in early life, and in 1818 was licensed to preach, and admitted on trial into the [[Ohio]] Conference. He was ordained deacon in 1820, and elder in 1822. For thirty years he rendered effective service, and when, in 1852, the conference was divided, he became a member of the [[Cincinnati]] Conference, and received a supernumerary relation, which he sustained until his decease. He died in Sidney, O., April 7, 1856. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1856, p. 152; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v. </p>


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James Smith [1]

Smith, James (3),

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Washington Co., Pa., in 1791. He was converted in early life, and in 1818 was licensed to preach, and admitted on trial into the Ohio Conference. He was ordained deacon in 1820, and elder in 1822. For thirty years he rendered effective service, and when, in 1852, the conference was divided, he became a member of the Cincinnati Conference, and received a supernumerary relation, which he sustained until his decease. He died in Sidney, O., April 7, 1856. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1856, p. 152; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.

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