LONGEVITY.
[To THE EDITOR OP TILE " SPECTATOR."] Sur,—Two or three years ago you mentioned in your columns some unusual instances of Ibilgevity. On September 3rd, 1921; the last of two lives ended which together covered a period'of more than 161 years. Jeremiah Smith was born in New Hemp= shire, November 29th, 1759. He was wounded at the Battle of Bennington in the Burgoyne Invasion; he entered Congress in 1790 and served for eight years; he was Chief Justice and also Governor of New Hampshire. He was one of the greatest lawyers of his day, and was associated with Daniel Webster in the celebrated Dartmouth College case. He died in 1842. His son, Jeremiah Smith, was born in July, 1837. He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire at the age of thirty. In 1890 he became Story Professor in the Harvard Law School, from which he retired in 1910, and became Story Professor Emeritus.—I am, Sir, &c., LONGEVITY. Philadelphia.
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