Smith, Charles Strong

Congregationalist; b. at Hardwick, Vt-, July 24, 1824; graduated at the University of Vermont, at Burlington, 1848; taught academy at Crafts bury, Vt., 1848-50; studied for a year (1851) at And over Theological Seminary, Ma ., but completed the course at East Windsor (now Hartford) Theological Institute, Conn., and graduated 1853; was pastor at New Preston, Conn., 1853-55; North Walton, N.Y., 1855-57; out of health five years; represented the town of Hardwick, Vt., in State legislature in 1863; since 1863 has been secretary of the Vermont Domestic Mi ionary Society, and written the annual reports; was a ociate editor of Vermont Chronicle, Montpelier (denominational weekly), 1875-77; since 1885 editor. He is the author of an e ay, Systematic Beneficence, Montpelier, Vt., 1877.