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Maxwell B. Smith, former Mayor of Monmouth Beach from 1924 to 1927, and a retired Wall Street broker, died yesterday of arterial sclerosis at his home in Johnson Street here after a three-year illness. He was 52 years old. Born in New Orleans, he was the son of the late Alexander Smith and the late Mrs. Elizabeth Sewall Smith Rogers, who married a second time after her first husband's death. Mr. Smith was descended through his mother from Samuel Sewall, noted Colonial jurist, who was Chief Justice of the Superior Court in Massachusetts from 1718 to 1728. Mr. Smith's maternal grandfather was Rufus King Sewall, historian of Maine. Port Sewall, Fla., visited by Mr. Smith for many years in the Winter, was named for the Sewall family. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Carolyn Saul Smith; three sons, Merrill S. Smith of Eatontown, N. J. and Maxwell B. Smith Jr. and Kenneth S. Smith, both of Monmouth Beach; two daughters, the Misses Carolyn M. and Madeline Smith, both of Monmouth Beach; and two sisters, Mrs. Reginald W. Pressprich, wife of a New York banker, and Mrs. Edward H. Rogers, wife of a New York physician.⁴

1895 PERLEY DENNISON SMITH, a lawyer in Boston and Lawrence, Mass., for more than fifty years, died in Boston on February 15, 1957, at the age of 85. Born September 9, 1871, in Berlin, Mass., he was the son of Isaiah P. Smith '58 and Clara Relief Smith and prepared for Bowdoin at Monson Academy. Following his graduation he studied at Harvard Law School and set up practice in Lawrence in 1897, specializing in conveyancing and corporation work. He was also attorney for the Lawrence Savings Bank and the Mattapan Co-operative Bank. Bowdoin Alumni Magazine.

Perley Dennison Smith jr., professor at Boston University School of Law and trial lawyer for Union Mutual Insurance Company, died August 11, 1951, at his summer home at Boothbay Harbor. Born October 30, 1902, in Methuen, Mass., he was the son of Perley D. '95 and Annie Sewall Smith and the grandson of Isaiah Perley Smith '58, and prepared at. Methuen High School. After graduation from Bowdoin he attended Boston University School of Law for three years, receiving an LL.B degree in 1927. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar that year and for a year was an assistant professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law. From 1928 until his death he was a lawyer in Boston and Marblehead, where he made his home. He is survived by his wife, Helen Perkins Smith; by two daughters, Susan S. and Pamela D; by a sister, Miss Eleanor Smith of Chicago, Ill; and by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perley D. Smith of Boston. Bowdoin Alumni Magazine.

Prof. Smith was educated at McGill University (B.Sc. honors, 1934 and M.Sc., 1936). In 1938 he joined the Eastern division transmission engineering department of the Bell Telephone Co. in Montreal, and in 1942 joined the radio branch (microwave) of the National Research Council in Ottawa as an associate research engineer. In 1946 he was convicted of conspiracy to pass information to the USSR and sentenced to five years inprisonment. After spending three years as physicist and director for Vector Labs Inc. in Montreal, and several years teaching physics and mathematics in that city, he came to Memorial as an assistant professor in 1962 and retired in 1977.³