ETHAN SMITH, son of Dea. Elijah and Sybil (Worthington) Smith, was born Dec. 19, 1762, in Belchertown, Mass. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and stationed at West Point at the time that post was betrayed by Arnold. He graduated in 1790 from Dartmouth College, entered the ministry, and was installed in 1792 pastor of the Congregational Church in Haverhill, N. H., where he remained eight years. He was then installed, March 12, 1800, pastor of the Congregational Church in Hopkinton, N. H., and resigned in 1818. The Rev. Mr. Smith was then pastor in Hebron, N. Y., from 1818 to 1821, and from Nov. 21, 1821, to December, 1826, in Poultney, Vt., from May 16, 1827, to June 2, 1832, in Hanover, Mass., and subsequently he was a city missionary, also agent of the Bible Society in Boston, Mass. The ministry of the Rev. Mr. Smith continued to the close of his life, and was one of great usefulness, marked by revivals of great power. During his pastorate in Hopkinton, N. H., one hundred and ninetytwo persons were added to the church. He was the author of several published works besides sermons . Among these were: View of the Trinity, Dissertations and the Prophecies, Lectures on Baptism, Memoirs of Mrs. Bailey, 1815, Key to Revelation, The Tribes of Israel in America, 1825, etc. The Rev. Mr. Smith married, Feb. 4, 1793, Bathsheba Sanford, daughter of the Rev. David Sanford, of West Medway. Mrs. Smith died April 5, 1835, at Pompey Hill, N. Y. The Rev. Mr. Smith died Aug. 29, 1849, in the eighty-seventh year of his age, at the residence of his son-in-law, the Rev. William A. Sanford, of Boylston, Mass. He preached with great animation and impressiveness the Sabbath before the last brief illness which terminated his life. The Rev. Mr. Smith had one son who was an eminent physician in Newark, N. J., three of his daughters married ministers and two sons were ministers. The Rev. Carlos Smith was for many years a pastor in Ohio, and the Rev. Stephen Sanford Smith was settled in Fayetteville, N. Y., in Westminster and Warren, Mass. He spent his later years in Chicago, Ill. In 1871 he made a journey to the East, and died at the house of his sister, in Worcester, Mass. His last pulpit service was in Medway Village Church, on the Sabbath preceding his death, and he was expected to preach there the next Sabbath, but on Saturday while making preparations to leave Worcester for Medway, he suddenly died. He had selected his manuscript sermons for the next day and one of them was on this text: "I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness."