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Smith was born on August 13, 1805, in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], United States, and attended Hartford public schools. He graduated from [[Yale University]] at the age of 19 where he was a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] Honor society. Smith taught briefly in a private school in [[Salisbury, North Carolina]], and then attended medical school at Yale graduating as medical doctor in 1828. He later lived in France and during the [[Paris, France|Paris]] [[cholera]] epidemic of 1832, Smith helped to treat the sick and wrote a pamphlet on the disease.<ref name="Handbook of Texas Online">[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsm04 Handbook of Texas Online]</ref> Returning to the United States, Smith began his medical practice in Salisbury, North Carolina. He became active politically and part owner of the [[Nullification (U.S. Constitution)|nullification]] newspaper the ''Western Carolinian''. In the fall of 1836, Smith was persuaded to move to Texas by [[J. Pinckney Henderson]], whom Smith had become friends with in Salisbury and was already in Texas.