Elizabeth Lee Smith

SMITH, Elizabeth Lee (née Allen). b. 3 September 1817; d. 1898, date unknown. Born Elizabeth Allen, she was the daughter of William Allen (1808-1882), a distinguished clergyman and academic who became President of Dartmouth College (1817-20) and of Bowdoin College (1820-39). Her father edited a collection, Psalms and Hymns (1835). Elizabeth married (1843) Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877), who later (1850) became a Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York. She was a good linguist, translating hymns from French and German, many of which appeared in Philip Schaff*’s Christ in Song (New York, 1869, London, 1870). Two of her translations have become widely known: ‘I greet Thee, who my...