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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  REV. HENRY HARRISON SMITH, Pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Huntsville, Ala., was born in Richmond County, N. C., October 25, 1847.

  Mr. Smith's father, Henry Benjamin, was a planter by occupation, and was born
in South Carolina in 1809. His ancestors came from England. His mother, Sallie
(Nicholson) Smith, was born in 1820, in North Carolina, and was of Scotch
descent. They emigrated from North Carolina to Mississippi in 1849, where his
father died in 1873. His mother still survives. Mr. Smith joined the Confederate
Army the 1st of August, 1864, as a member of the Twenty-fourth Mississippi
Regiment, and at the battle of Jonesboro, Ga., during the latter part of the
month of his enlistment, he was severely wounded. He is a self-educated man,
and, after his education was completed, filled for some time the Chair of
Natural Science and English Literature at the Cooper Institute.

  Feeling called to preach the Gospel, he joined the New Hope Presbytery, of
Mississippi, in December, 1873, and in July following was licensed to preach. He
was ordained in July, 1875, and his first charge was Pleasant Hill, Ala. In 1877
he accepted a call to Jackson, Tenn., where he remained for two years, when, on
account of failing health, he resigned. In 1879, his health having been
restored, he accepted a call to Selma, where he labored with great acceptance
and success until May, 1887, when he was called to his present charge in
Huntsville. He was married, October 7, 1875, to Mrs. Mattie G. Terrell, of
Crawford, Miss., and has had born to him two children: Guthrie and Henry Harrison.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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