CLASS OF 1880

Lyndon Arnold Smith died in St. Paul, Minn., March S. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy just a week before, and never regained complete consciousness.

Mr. Smith was born in Boscawen, N. H., July 15, 1854, his parents being Rev. Ambrose and Cynthia Maria (Edgerton) Smith. His father, a Dartmouth graduate of 1845, died in 1862, and Lyndon's education was much retarded by the necessity of his being a breadwinner for the family. A younger brother, Justin H. Smith '77, preceded him in College. Like this brother, he maintained a distinguished rank for scholarship, and was the valedictorian of his class. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

Immediately after graduation he went to Washington, D. C., and from July 1, 1880, to October 1, 1885, was a clerk in the Bureau of Education. The study of law was meanwhile pursued, and he graduated as Bachelor of Laws from Georgetown University in 1882, and as Master of Laws from that institution in 1884 and from National University in 1883.

On leaving Washington he began the practice of his profession in St. Paul, Minn., but in February, 1886, removed to Montevideo. He became active at once in public affairs as well as in his profession, became a member of the local school board, village trustee, and village president, and prosecuting attorney of Chippewa county. From 1899 to 1903 he was lieutenant governor of the state. In 1908 he was appointed assistant attorney general. January 1, 1912, he became attorney general by appointment of the governor to nil a vacancy, was twice re-elected by the people, and held the office at the time of his death.

Mr. Smith was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and in 1904 was a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists in St. Louis. He was a Mason and Odd Fellow, and an active member of the Congregational church. He belonged to the Minnesota Congregational Club, and to the University and Athletic Clubs in St. Paul. He was the author of "Recent School Law Decisions."

February 3, 1886, he was married in St. Paul to Dora Rogers of Kittery, Me. She survives her husband, with their only child, a daughter.