Lewis Everett Smith Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Surname: SMITH
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 794

     LEWIS EVERETT SMITH, formerly principal of Smith's Academy
and Commercial College, Portsmouth, N. H., of which he was the founder,
was born in Lincoln, Mass., January 2, 1831. He was a son of Cyrus and
Tryphena (Brooks) Smith, who were farming people of Lincoln, Mass.
Their children were Maria Laurens, now deceased, who was the wife of Leon-
ard Thompson, Jr., of Woburn, Mass.; Emily Frances, also deceased. who
was the wife of James Loren Chapin, of Lincoln, Mass.; Lewis Everett, the
subject of this review, and Martha Pierce Smith, a younger sister, now
deceased.
     Lewis Everett Smith fitted for college at Groton, Mass., where he was
graduated in 1849. In 1853 he was graduated from Brown University, at
Providence, R. I., and immediately after entered the educational field, be-
coming a teacher. After following his vocation in the high schools of Bed-
ford and Lincoln, Mass.. he came to Portsmouth in 1859 as assistant in the
boys' high school there, and after holding that posItion for four years became
principal, which position he held for ten years. He then established
Smith's Academy and Commercial College, which he conducted successfully
for about twenty-five years, or until his retirement. He died in Portsmouth,
May 30, 1904, after a long and useful career, the news of his headth causing
sorrow, not only to his immediate family and numerous close friends, but to
hundreds--perhaps we might almost say thousands--of his former pupils,
who held him in high esteem.
     Mr. Smith was married June 17, 1856, to Miss Eliza Abbott, who was
born in Bedford, Mass., a daughter of Oliver R. and Mary A. (Buttrick)
Abbott, who were married in Bed ford, Mass., June 28, 1827. Her father,

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who was a farmer, was a native of Bedford; her mother was from Gorham,
Me. Their children were Oliver Davis; Mary Alice, wife of Dr. C. T. Lang,
of Woburn, Mass.; Harriet Ann; and Eliza, who became the wife of the
subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had two children: Lewis Abbott,
who is now deceased, and Howard Revere, who resides with his mother at
No. 647 Middle Street, Portsmouth. The latter graduated from Brown 
University in the class of 1896. Mrs. Smith and her son are members of
the Baptist church, of which her husband was deacon for many years.