s were a
lecture on Hippocrates; also one on Paracelsus, and a commemorative
Discourse on the death of Dr. Amos Twitchell, besides various articles
in the medical journals and in the transactions of the New Hampshire
Medical Society.

With high professional attainments and distinctions Prof. Smith united
a personal character of the highest purity, integrity, and nobility.
He had been for a long time a member and constant attendant upon the
Unitarian Church, and for thirty years a Sunday-school teacher. He was
a strong advocate of temperance, and took a deep interest in the cause
of education. He represented Peterborough, his place of residence, in
the Legislature several times. He devoted the spare hours of his
latest years to the preparation of a "History of the Town of
Peterborough," which was published in a large octavo volume in 1876.
He married Fidelia Stearns, February 26, 1828. Prof. Smith died at
Peterborough, February 22, 1878.

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The following paragraphs relating to one of Dartmouth's most largely
endowed, highly cultivated, and warmly beloved teachers, Prof. Alpheus
B. Crosby, who was born at Gilmanton, N. H., February 22, 1832, and
was the son of Dr. Dixi and Mary Jane (Moody) Crosby, are from a
Memorial "Discourse" by Dr. J. W. Barstow:

"Seven generations of tough New England fibre, combining sturdy
physique, thorough individuality and undiluted common sense, form a
groundwork on which no modern youth need hesitate to build, while the
mellow background of a virtuous lineage well prepares the canvas for
whatever of high aim and noble deed shall fill up the fresher
foreground of his own life's picture.

"The native temperament of the boy, as I remember him, showed some
rare combinations and counterpoises. With an exuberance of animal
spirits he had, also, a natural balance of _caution_. He was ardent,
but not hasty; he was self reliant and fearless, but never
precipitate; frank and affable, though not easily won by a stranger;
fond of experiment, but also intensely practical. He was prompt to
decide, but always took time for detail, and pursued perseveringly to
the end whatever engaged his attention and his effort.

"His constant association with his father, and with his father's
friends, made the boy perfectly at home in the office and in the
society of professional men; and almost from his cradle he was
accustomed to assist in minor operations and in the gene