Elihu Hubbard Smith portraitDeCusati, EmiddioSharples, JamesYale Art GallerySmith, a graduate of Yale College and a Connecticut physician, moved to New York where he became one of the founding editors of the Medical Repository (1797), the first American medical journal. He died in the yellow fever epidemic in New York in 1798. This pastel portrait hangs in the Steiner Room.still image