Philander Smith (1809–1882), American philanthropist and eponym of Philander Smith College
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In the year 1905 the Philander Smith Institute of Mussoorie, founded by a Mrs. Smith, widow of Mr. Philander Smith of Illinois was moved to Nainital and “amalgamated” with the Oak Opening Boys’ High School and the result was the Philanders Smith College with Rev. FS Ditto as its first Principal.
With Ellen (and previously Fanny Fern), he raised Ethel, the daughter of Grace Eldrege (Fanny Fern's daughter) and writer Mortimer Thomson (also known as Philander Doesticks).
Other researchers who worked with Smagorinsky in Washington and Princeton included Isidoro Orlanski, Jerry Mahlman, Syukuro Manabe, Yoshio Kurihara, Kikuro Miyakoda, Rod Graham, Leith Holloway, Isaac Held, Garreth Williams, George Philander, and Douglas Lilly.
Upset by the lack of institutions of higher learning west of the Appalachian Mountains, Philander Chase undertook a difficult fund-raising campaign both in the United States and in England to raise money for such a school to be located in Ohio; the largest donation came from Jane, Dowager Countess of Rosse.
Philander Smith was the son of David Smith, whose 1801 sawmill in upstate New York gave name to the village of Smith’s Mills before it became Adams, New York (after former president John Adams) in 1802.
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In 2003, the Historical Association of South Jefferson County moved into the former Philander Smith House at 29 East Church Street in Adams, New York.
It is named for the American inventors and brothers Philander and Francis Marion Roots, founders of the Roots Blower Company, Connersville, Indiana, who first patented the basic design in 1860 as an air pump for use in blast furnaces and other industrial applications.