Stephen Smith

Rev. Stephen Smith (1797–1873) was an African American businessman, philanthropist, preacher, real estate developer, and abolitionist. He lived in Pennsylvania in the 19th century and contributed large amounts of his wealth in the effort to abolish slavery. Smith had been an agent of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia. He co-founded and owned "Smith, Whipper & Co." a lumber business in Columbia, Pennsylvania; and later helped found the "Stephen Smith Home for the Aged".

Early life Stephen Smith was born in 1797 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to an enslaved black woman named Nancy Smith. Smith attended national colored conventions of the free black people held in New York State in 1834 and in Philadelphia in 1835.

Smith died in 1873 of unknown causes.