Samuel Price Smith was born in Taneytown, Maryland on December 21, 1795. His father was Dr. Joseph Sim Smith, one of the Founders of the Faculty.
The younger Dr. Smith was a member of the Virginia Militia at North Point, during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814. Afterwards, he became a pupil of Dr. Colin Mackenzie at the Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, and received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1817.
He moved to Frederick County, Maryland for several years, and then settled farther west in Cumberland in 1820. He was a member of the Reform Convention in 1850. Smith became the Chair of the Committee on Education and was active in founding the local public school system.
Smith became the President of the Allegany County Medical Society from 1867 to 1875. He was the Vice-President of the Faculty in 1854-55 and 1856-57, and then became President in 1878-79.
He was a surgeon in the Union States Army from 1861 to 1864 and a member of the Maryland State Legislature from 1864 to 1866.
Dr. Smith died in Cumberland on March 1, 1882.
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