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emy in Southington, Conn., later going
to Meriden where he founded the Meri-
den Institute.
In 1850 Mr. Smith quit teaching and
began in a small way the manufacture
of carriage hardware by machinery,
which up to that time had been made
entirely by hand. He revolutionized
the entire mode of production of car-
riage fittings and during nearly half a
century has remained in the business.
He was twice married: in 1850 to
Jeanette Higgins, and in 1889 to Laura
A. Brooks who survives him with one
daughter.
AUGUSTUS STEBBINS HITCHCOCK, ’54.
Augustus Stebbins Hitchcock died at
Plainville, Conn., on Jan. 9, 1899, from
general debility.
Mr. Hitchcock, the son of Augustus
and Amelia J. (Hulburt) Hitchcock,
was born at Great Barrington, Mass.,
March 27, 1827, and attended school
and worked at cabinet making with his
father until he attained his majority,
when he fitted himself for college and
entered the Class of Fifty-Four. After
graduation he engaged for four years in
teaching, and then entered a law office
in New York City. In December, 1861,
he was admitted to the Bar in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., and in February, 1863, was
appointed by the United States Gov-
ernment a Superintendent of Freedmen,
at Port Royal, S. C., holding the posi-
tion until: the Spring of 1864, when
Government supervision was with-
drawn. After passing two or three sea-
sons in an unsuccessful effort to raise
cotton profitably, he gave up the effort
and opened a law office in Beaufort,
; Soon after, in February, 1868,
General Canby appointed him Provost
Judge, with a civil jurisdiction covering
Beaufort County. This office he held
until reconstruction was accomplished
in July, 1869, when he resumed the prac-
tice of Law, residing on Port Royal
Island, by Broad River, about seven and
a half miles distant from his office.
This life he continued until 1877, when
his health proving inadequate, he relin-
quished the Law and settled down to a
quiet life on his Broad River plantation.
Here he remained, feeling, as he says,
as if he was stranded on a lee shore,
longing to be employed in the direction
of his culture, until-1889, when he sold
out and returned North, that ‘his wife
might be near her friends, and his chil-
dren have a better outlook. He settled
on a small fatm at Plainville, Conn.,
where he resided with his family until
his death.
Mr. Hitchcock was married August
23, 1861, to Sophia, daughter of Asa
Lyon of East Woodstock, Conn., who
survives him with one son and one
daughter. ;
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Death of Dr. Synnott.
Rey. Joseph Joachim Synnott, D.D.,
President of Seton Hall College, South
Orange, N. J., died recently at Mont-
clair, NJ.
Dr. Synnott was born at Great Neck,
L. I., February 6, 1863, but had resided
in Montclair since 1871. He received
the degree of B.A. from the Roman.
-Catholic College of St. Francis Xavier
in 1882, being valedictorian of his Class.
From there he went to the University
of Innsbruck in the Austrian Tyrol and
at the end of six years received the de-
gree of D.D. He was the first Ameri-
can to be thus honored. Having been
ordained to the priesthood, he returned
to America in 1888 and was for a time
Assistant at St. John’s Church, Pater-
son, N. J. At the end of a few months
he was called to Seton Hall College to
become Professor of Canon Law, He-
brew and the Scriptures, and later Pro-
fessor of Moral Theology. In June,
1897, he was made President of the
College. In 1893 he received the hon-
orary degree of M.A. from Yale, it be-
ing the only instance of a Roman Cath-
olic priest receiving an honorary degree
from Yale. ;
He was a man of great learning and
ability, but gentleness and modesty were
his most distinguishing characteristics.
His Protestant friends were numerous
and among them he was, perhaps, held
in just as high esteem as among his
Roman Catholic brethren.
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