Smith Clift (1817-1893)
of 15 West 29th Street, New York City & Newport, R.I.
He was named for his mother's family, descendants of the founder of the Smiths of Smithtown on Long Island. Clift himself was a member of the Century Association where he was described as, "a polished gentleman of excellent position, and of refined and studious habit. He practised law in this city for many years, but of late had spent much time in travel and in his country home at Newport, where he lived a life of pleasant and elegant leisure." He was named as one of the 52 "Patriarchs" of New York society and died at the summer cottage in Newport of Royal Phelps Carroll. He married Emma Randolph (a member of the Quaker Fitz Randolph family of New Jersey) and had two daughters, Elizabeth (died unmarried), and Edith, Baroness de Vanduel, of Paris. In 1868, the family toured Europe & Egypt in the same party as Theodore Roosevelt.
