Smith, Joseph (5),
a Baptist minister, was born in Hampstead, N.H., Jan. 31, 1808, and pursued his studies at the New Hampton and Newton institutions. Wishing to secure a full collegiate education, he entered. Brown University and was graduated in the class of 1837, and was ordained Sept. 27, 1837. His pastorates were at Woonsocket and Newport. R.I., and at Grafton and North Oxford, Mass. In the latter place he died, April 26, 1866. (J.C.S.)