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"An American jurist and political economist. graduated at Columbia 1832 and at Harvard Law School 1833. Was for some time an official at the State Department,and about 1871 became an advisor on International law to the Mikado of japan, a post he occupied five years."https://books.google.com/books?id=BNo_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939&dq=e+peshme+smith&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiopJXFgLbdAhVOMt8KHdMZCrYQ6AEITDAG#v=onepage&q=e%20peshme%20smith&f=false

Mentioned in 1a letter from Frederick Seward to William Seward written January 1,1852, "You see by the  papers that the Canal Contractors have been disposed of in time.
I fancy there are very few who are quite satisfied, but perhaps as many as would have been under any arrangement. I believe Mr Hurley,  Vivus Smith,  E. Peshine Smith,  Allen,  Dickenson  and Abell,  
are all well taken care of."

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"An American jurist and political economist. graduated at Columbia 1832 and at Harvard Law School 1833. Was for some time an official at the State Department,and about 1871 became an advisor on International law to the Mikado of japan, a post he occupied five years."https://books.google.com/books?id=BNo_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939&dq=e+peshme+smith&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiopJXFgLbdAhVOMt8KHdMZCrYQ6AEITDAG#v=onepage&q=e%20peshme%20smith&f=false Mentioned in 1a letter from Frederick Seward to William Seward written January 1,1852, "You see by the papers that the Canal Contractors have been disposed of in time. I fancy there are very few who are quite satisfied, but perhaps as many as would have been under any arrangement. I believe Mr Hurley, Vivus Smith, E. Peshine Smith, Allen, Dickenson and Abell, are all well taken care of."
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