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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], J. Henry Smith Speeches, WLU Coll. 0258, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Dr. O. Norris Smith (Washington and Lee University Class of 1929) in 1991

Biographical / Historical

Jacob Henry Smith graduated from Washington College in 1843. He became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, North Carolina from 1859 to 1897. He was the father of Washington and Lee University president Henry Louis Smith.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Washington College student J. Henry Smith's addresses to the college's "John Marshall Society" on Sept. 24, 1841; "Total Abstinence Society" on Sept. 23, 1842; a speech on "Patriotism" in celebration of George Washington's birthday as a representative of the "Rockbridge Union Volunteers" in 1842; and a speech on "Moral Education" given on Commencement Day, 1842.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• College Students -- Conduct of life
• College orations
• Drinking of alcoholic beverages
• John Marshall Society
• Moral education
• Patriotism
• Rockbridge Union Volunteers
• Smith, Henry Louis
• Smith, O. Norris
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American
• Temperance
• Total Abstinence Society
• Washington College
• Washington College (Lexington, Va.)