he was in Philadelphia,
July 4, 1811, where he made some observations as to the effect of
hot and cool air upon the human system, through the respiration.
But it is certain he taught to the end, in the pulpit, and ministered
as a physician to his neighbors and friends, often going long
distances from home for the purpose. He concluded, near the end
of his long and varied experiences, that: "Men have contrived to
break all God's _appointments_. But this: '_It is appointed for
all men once to die_' has never been abrogated or defeated by any
man. And as to medicine we are about to take: _If the Lord will_,
we shall do this or that with success; _if the Lord will_, I shall
get well by this means or some other." He concluded his "Introduction"
by commending the "iron doctrine" for consumptives, and assenting
to Dr. Brown's opinion that "_an old man ought never to marry a
young woman_."

He is buried in a neglected graveyard near Donnelsville, Clark
County, Ohio.

Men of the type and character described impressed for good Western
life and character while they lived, and through their example and
posterity also the indefinite future.

Peter Smith had four sons, Samuel, Ira, Hezekiah, and Abram, who
each lived beyond eighty years, dying the order of their birth,
each leaving a large family of sons and daughters, whose children,
grandchildren, etc., are found now in nearly, if not all, the States
of the Union, many of them also becoming pioneers to the frontiers,
long ago reaching the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific slope and coast.( 5)

His sons Ira and Hezekiah, much after the fashion of their father,
preached the Gospel (Baptist) in Ohio and Indiana, but not
neglecting, as did their father, to amass each a considerable
fortune. Ira resided and died at Lafayette, Indiana, and Rev.
Hezekiah Smith at Smithland, Indiana. Samuel, the eldest (Clark
County, Ohio), was always a plain, creditable farmer, but his sons
and grandchildren became noted as educators, physicians, surgeons,
and divines.

Samuel's son, Peter Smith, besides acquiring a good general education,
studied surveying, my father assisting him, and he taught school
in Clark and other counties in Ohio, and became celebrated for his
success. He was the first in Ohio to advocate higher-graded, or
union schools, and through his efforts a first law was passed in
Ohio to establish them. He adopted a merit-ticket system for
scholars in schools which, for a ti