Smart, James P

Smart, James P., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Huntingdon, Pa., July 14, 1814. He received a careful home training, graduated in Jefferson College, Pa., studied divinity in the Associate Seminary in Canonsburg, was licensed by the Chartiers Presbytery and ordained by the Miami Presbytery in 1839, and his first and only charge was Massey's Creek, O. Here he labored with true apostolic zeal and earnestness, and died Feb. 28, 1861. Mr. Smart was a man of vigorous mind and noble heart. He was for many years stated clerk of the Xenia Presbytery. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1862, p. 235. (J.L.S.)