Smyth, Frederick (1819-1899)

Name:

Smyth, Frederick (1819-1899)

Title:

President, First National Bank
Treasurer, Merrimack River Savings Bank
President, Concord and Montreal Railroad
Treasurer, New Hampshire Agricultural Society
Director, United States Agricultural Society
Vice-President, American Pomological Society
Agent, United States, Industrial Exhibition, London, 1861
Clerk, City of Manchester, 1849, 1850, 1851
Mayor, City of Manchester, 1852-1854, 1864
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1857-1858
Governor, State of New Hampshire, 1865-1867
Corporate Trustee, National Home for Invalid Soldiers
Delegate,Republican National Convention, 1872
Delegate, New Hampshire State Constitutional Convention, 1872
U. S. Commissioner, Paris International Exposition, 1878
President, New Hampshire Orphans' Home, Franklin
President, Franklin Street Congregatuional Society, 1875-1894
Whig
Republican

Other Names:

Smith, Frederick

Born:

03/09/1819

Birthplace:

Candia, NH

Died:

04/22/1899

Death Location:

Hamilton, Bermuda

Residence:

Candia, NH
Manchester, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Teacher
Merchant
Banker
Politician
Railroad Executive

Father:

Smyth, Stephen (1785-1866)

Mother:

Rowe, Dorothy (1786-1852)

Relations:

Partnership, Porter & Smyth, Manchester, 1843-1844
(John Porter and Frederick Smyth)
Partnership, Smyth & Child, Manchester, 1844
(Frederic Smith and David Child)

Spouse:

(1) Emily Lane, 1844
(2) Marion Hamilton Cossar, 1886

Notes:

American Series of Popular Biographies. New Hampshire Edition. This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens, The State of New Hampshire. (Boston, MA: New England Historical Publishing Company, 1902), 58-60.

Benjamin P. Poore, Sketches of the Life and Public Services of Frederick Smyth of New Hampshire. Manchester, New Hampshire: John B. Clarke, 1885

"Porter & Smyth, Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods" Advertisement, Congregational Journal, Concord, NH, December 14, 1843, 3.

"Removal, Smyth & Child" Advertisement, Manchester American, Manchester, NH, March 7, 1845, 4.

"Ex.-Gov. Smyth Dead," The Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, April 23, 1899

Frederick Smyth Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society Library (M1972-086).