Eli Smith (September 13, 1801 – January 11, 1857) was an American Protestant missionary and scholar.
6-694: Smith was born in Northford, Connecticut , to Eli and Polly (née Whitney) Smith. He graduated from Yale College in 1821 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1826. He worked in Malta until 1829, then in company with H. G. O. Dwight traveled through Armenia and Georgia to Persia . They published their observations, Missionary Researches in Armenia , in 1833 in two volumes. Smith settled in Beirut in 1833. Along with Edward Robinson , he made two trips to
12-641: Is in the northern part of the town, bordered to the west by the town of North Haven , to the east by the town of Guilford , and to the north by the town of Wallingford , all in New Haven County. It is bordered to the northeast by the town of Durham in Middlesex County . In 2002, 230 acres (93 ha) of the central village of Northford were designated as the Northford Center Historic District . Northford
18-569: The Holy Land in 1838 and 1852, acting as an interpreter for Robinson in his quest to identify and record biblical place names in Palestine, which was subsequently published in Robinson's Biblical Researches in Palestine . He is known for bringing the first printing press with Arabic type to Syria . He went on to pursue the task which he considered to be his life's work: translation of
24-658: The Bible into Arabic. Although he died before completing the task, the work was completed by C. V. Van Dyck of the Syrian Mission and published in 1860 to 1865. Smith married three times. His first wife was Sarah Lanman Huntington Smith , who was also a missionary. She died in 1836. He then married Maria Ward Chapin, who died in 1842. He married Mehitable (Hetty) Simkins (Butler) Smith on October 7, 1846, in Northampton, Massachusetts . His daughter Mary Elizabeth Smith
30-652: Was educated at the female seminaries in Hartford, Connecticut , and Ipswich, Massachusetts , and taught at the Female Seminary at Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati . She was listed In the Women's Who's Who of America in 1914–15. Northford, Connecticut Northford is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary village and surrounding residential and rural land in the town of North Branford , New Haven County , Connecticut , United States. It
36-410: Was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census . A Congregational church was organized at Northford in 1750 and its current building dates to 1846. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church was first organized in 1763. The present edifice was dedicated on November 10, 1940, having been rebuilt to resemble its predecessor, which dated to 1845 and was destroyed by fire in 1938. St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church
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