death_date death_place children birth_place religion nationality party parents birth_date spouse residence image article_title name occupation
11 october 1911 cambridge , massachusetts stuart , nina boston , massachusetts baptist american republican benjamin & mary o. smith october 9 , 1826 laura a. smith back bay , boston franklinwsmith.jpg franklin w. smith
 franklin smith hardware merchant
franklin w. smith

franklin webster smith -lrb- 1826 -- 1911 -rrb- was an american idealistic reformer who made his fortune as a boston hardware merchant .
he was an early abolitionist , defendant in a civilian court-martial in 1864 , author , and architectural enthusiast who proposed transforming washington , d.c. into a `` capital of beauty and cultural knowledge '' .
