Rev. Charles W. Smith, A.M., D.D., LL.D. and Caroline Lou "Carrie" Lindley

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Husband Rev. Charles W. Smith, A.M., D.D., LL.D. ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1840 - Jefferson Twp, Fayette Co, PA 2
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         Father: Rev. Wesley Smith (      -1888) 2 3 4
         Mother: [Unk] Ford (      -      )

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       Marriage: 1864 or 1865 1 2 4 5

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Wife Caroline Lou "Carrie" Lindley ^{1 4 5}

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         Father: Dr. Lutellus Lindley (1808-1881) 1 7 8
         Mother: Mary A. Wade (      -      ) 1

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1 M Rev. Charles Lindley Smith, A. M. ^{2 5 6}

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2 F Edna Miller Smith ^{2 5 6}

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3 M Lutellus Wesley Smith ^{2 5 6}

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Charles W. Smith, A.M., D.D., LL.D.

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He spent his youth in school until he approached the years of manhood, when he went into business for one year. In October, 1858, he received license to preach, and the following April (1859) was admitted into the Pittsburgh conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His first appointment was to Centerville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and his second to Carmichaels, Greene County. He served, subsequently, three churches in Fayette County: Bridgeport, Connellsville and Uniontown. All the remainder of his ministerial life has been spent in Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, except one term in Canton, Ohio, and one in McKeesport. Allegheny County. In these cities he served Carson Street, Arch Street and Smithfield Street churches, and four years as presiding elder of the Pittsburgh district. During his service in the district a great work was accomplished, through an organization called the Pittsburgh Church Union, in freeing certain churches from old and troublesome debts. The union was organized for this purpose, and, through the encouragement and assistance it gave, five churches were relieved and Methodism thus practically freed from debt in the entire city.
When but thirty-six years of age he was elected a delegate to the general conference (of 1876), an unusual honor for one so young. Four years later he was the first reserve delegate, and in 1884 was elected a delegate again. During this conference he was elected editor of the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, and entered upon the duties of that office the 1st of June in that year. In 1888 he was again elected a delegate to the general conference, and by that body was re-elected editor of the Advocate. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Allegheny College in 1871, and that of Doctor of Divinity from Scio College, in 1880. The doctor spent a very busy life in the ministry. After he was appointed to the pastorate of the Arch Street Church, in 1870, his charges were large and responsible, requiring both hard labor and great skill. But he met the requirements in every case, and by fidelity in one station won promotion to another.

After spending his youth in study and preparation Doctor Smith entered the Pittsburgh Conference in 1859, at the age of nineteen years. His first pastorates were Centerville, Somerset county; Carmichaels, Greene county; Brownsville (Second Church) and Connellsville, Fayette County. In 1865 he became pastor of Carson Street Church, Pittsburgh, and continued in Allegheny County thereafter, except three years at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and three years as pastor of First Church, Canton, Ohio. After leaving Carson Street Church his appointments were Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Arch street, Allegheny, Canton, Ohio, Smithfield street, Pittsburgh, and First Church, McKeesport. The latter was the last church served by him. At the close of his pastorate there he was appointed presiding elder of the Pittsburgh District, in 1880, and in 1884 was elected editor of the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, in which office he has continued by successive elections every four years without opposition. During his incumbency the circulation of the paper increased from a little over nine thousand to almost thirty-five thousand. Doctor Smith was elected delegate to the General Conference eight times, thus having been honored more than any other man in the history of the Conference. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist Conference in Washington, D. C., in 1891, and to that which met in London in 1901. He was a member and the vice-chairman of the Commission which formed the present constitution of his church and had charge of the measure in its passage through the General Conference. He was a member of the joint commission which prepared the Methodist Hymnal, in use by the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and the Methodist church of Canada, which arranged for the organization of the Methodist church of Japan by the consolidation of the members and ministers of these three churches in that country. [GPHAV, 844]

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 406.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 316.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 437.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 844.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 438.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 845.

7 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 849.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 239.