Joseph Mather Smith

Joseph Mather Smith, an American physician, born at New Rochelle, N. Y., March 14, 1789, died in New York, April 22, 1866. He graduated in medicine in 1815 at the college of physicians and surgeons, New York. In 1826-he was appointed professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the college of physicians and surgeons, and in 1829 attending physician to the New York hospital. In 1855 his chair was exchanged for that of materia med-ica and clinical medicine. His most important publications are: "Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics" (New York, 1824); "Report on Practical Medicine" ("Transactions of the American Medical Association," 1848, vol. i.); "Report on Public Hygiene " (ibid., 1850, vol. iii.); " Medical Topography and Epidemics of the State of New York " (ibid., 1800, vol. xiii.); and " Therapeutics of Albuminuria " (" Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine," 1803, vol. ii.).

Joseph Michel Ange Pollet

Joseph Michel Ange Pollet, a French sculptor, born in Palermo in 1814. He studied in Italy and Belgium, and in 1844 settled in Paris. His principal works are "Esmeralda," "The Duke of Brabant at Brussels," and a colossal bust of " France." His " Hour of the Night," at St. Cloud, has been frequently reproduced.

Joseph Miller

Joseph Miller, an English actor, born probably in London in 1684, died there in 1738. He was popular on the stage, and performed with repute in several of Congreve's best comedies, particularly in "Love for Love" and "The Old Bachelor," to the success of which he is said to have materially contributed. In 1739 a book of jests passing under his name, and supposed to be the compilation of John Mottley, author of a life of Peter the Great, was published in London, and has gained a celebrity which preserves the name of its assumed author.

Joseph Mozier

Joseph Mozier, an American sculptor, born in Burlington, Vt., Aug. 22, 1812, died in Switzerland in October, 1870. He removed to New York in 1831, and was engaged in mercantile pursuits till 1845, when he retired from business, and shortly after visited Europe. Having devoted several years to the study of sculpture in Florence, he went to Rome, where ho long resided. His principal works are a statue of Pocahontas, the "Wept of the Wish-ton-Wish," contributed to the international exhibition at London in 1862, statues of "Truth" and "Silence" in the possession of the New York mercantile library association, "Rebecca at the Well," "Esther," a group illustrating the parable of the prodigal son, an " Indian Girl at the Grave of her Lover," and " Jephthah's Daughter".

Joseph Nash

Joseph Nash, an English water-color painter, born about 1813. He is chiefly distinguished as a painter of architecture, and his "Architecture of the Middle Ages" (fol., 1838), and "Mansions of England in the Olden Time" (4 vols, fol., 1839-'49), lithographed in colors from his drawings, are among his works which have been published. He has painted historical scenes from Shakespeare and Scott, and miscellaneous subjects, such as " The Queen's Visit to Lincoln's Inn Hall" (1846), "Charles V. visiting Francis I." (1865), " The Chapel of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey " (1866), and " Louis Philippe's Bedroom at Claremont" (1867).