Smith, Elias, 1769-1846

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Dates

Existence: 1769 - 1846

Biography

Elias Smith (17 June 1769 – 29 June 1846) was a preacher, physician, journalist and clergyman. Smith, along with the preacher Abner Jones, founded a group of Christian Churches in New England that eventually merged with other like-minded, regional groups to become the denomination known as the Christian Connexion. Smith founded The Herald of Gospel Liberty in 1808. Smith spent his later years as a vigorous proponent and practitioner of the Thomsonian system of herbal medicine, though he and Thomson had a public dispute and falling out in 1827

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Elias Smith letter

Collection

Identifier: Mss 816657

Mss 816657

Date(s): 1816-12-07

Abstract

In English.