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Nationality
  
American

Acceptance rate
  
68% (2010)

Occupation
  
Real estate

Enrollment
  
696 (2010)

Net worth
  
$125,000 (at death)

Phone
  
+1 501-375-9845

Name
  
Philander Smith



Born
  
November 23, 1809 (
1809-11-23
)
Worth, New York

Died
  
February 24, 1882 (1882-02-25) Oak Park, Illinois

Resting place
  
Forest Home Cemetery (Forest Park, Illinois)

Known for
  
Philander Smith College

Role
  
College in Little Rock, Arkansas

Address
  
900 W Daisy L Gatson Bates Dr, Little Rock, AR 72202, United States

Notable alumni
  
Joycelyn Elders, Elijah Pitts, Hubert Ausbie, Lottie Shackelford, Ozell Sutton

Similar
  
Edward Waters College, Tougaloo College, Arkansas Baptist College, Southern University at New Or, Voorhees College

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Philander Smith (November 23, 1809 – February 24, 1882) was an American real estate agent and philanthropist. Philander Smith College is his namesake.

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Biography

Philander Smith was the son of David Smith, whose 1801 sawmill in upstate New York gave name to the village of Smith’s Mills (now the town of Adams).

Among the early settlers at Oak Park, Illinois, Smith and wife Adeline provided financial assistance to Methodist missions in India, China, and Japan.

His widow Adeline continued to give away his $125,000 fortune to a number of causes for a dozen years after his 1882 death. Her gift that year to the Methodists’ Walden Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas resulted in its immediate renaming as Philander Smith College.

Legacy

  • In 2003, the Historical Association of South Jefferson [County] moved into the former Philander Smith House at 29 East Church Street in Adams, New York.
  • With the 1866 marriage of his daughter Sarah, Mr. Smith became father-in-law to famous Christian Zionist William Eugene Blackstone.
  • Adeline M. Smith was memorialized in The Gospel in All Lands 1895, p. 519, so she probably died that year. The eulogy lists the many donations she made to the church.
  • References

    Philander Smith Wikipedia