File:Dr. Gouverneur Mather Smith obituary in the New York Times on December 9, 1898.png

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Dr. Gouverneur M. Smith. a prominent physician of this city, died at his residence, 22 West Fifty-fifth Street, yesterday, from heart disease. He was a native of this city, and was a son of the late Joseph Mather Smith, M. D., Professor in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Gouverneur M. Smith was graduated from the New York University in 1852, and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1855. In that year he was also graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. In December, 1882, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, and served until the close of the war. He was elected in 1866 to succeed his father as attending physician in the New York Hospital. In 1879 he was made a consulting physician, and at that time was offered prominent positions in other New York hospitals. From 1873 to 1878 Dr. Smith served as Vice President of the New York Academy of Medicine, and ever since 1878 had been one of the trustees of that institution, In 1887 and 1888 he was elected President of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. Dr. Smith was the author of a number of medical works of note. He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, of the Board of Managers of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Century and Metropolitan Clubs. For many years he had been one of the managers of the New York Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor and of the New York Institute for the Blind.

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