Keneth McKennard Smith (c. 1794 - ?) was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Smith was born in Scotland. As a young man, he became a sailor. Subsequent to that, he settled in the Bay of Quinte region, where he worked as a schoolteacher. Smith was not religious, and would sometimes perform mock sermons to poke fun at those who were.[1]
Smith was accepted on trial as a circuit rider by the Genesee conference at the annual meeting of 1820, which was held in Niagara Falls.[1] He was assigned to the Augusta circuit, where he met Miss Weldon, whom he subsequently married.[2] In 1821, he was assigned to the York circuit, where he rode alongside Fitch Reed. The pair also served as missionaries to those parts of the province not covered by established circuits.[3] Membership in the church on the York circuit increased by four, and as missionaries they converted an additional seventy people to Methodism.[4] 1822, he remained on the York and the Missions circuit.[5] In 1823, he was assigned to the Ottawa circuit.[6]
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edit- Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.