SAMUEL SMART

SMART

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 15:58:52

SAMUEL SMART.—Adams county is not behind other counties of the State in its indebtedness to the Emerald Isle for the many worthy sons and daughters that have come from that country across the sea to find homes in this. The gentleman whose name heads this biography was born in the beautiful city of Belfast, county Down, northern Ireland, April 8, 1835, son of Thomas and Margaret (Graten) Smart, both natives of county Down and of Scotch-Irish extraction. The parents passed their lives and died in Ireland. They were Protestants, and in that faith reared
their family. They had eight sons and three daughters.

The subject of our sketch was reared on a farm in his native land and received his education there. In 1859 he took passage from Belfast to Liverpool and thence to New York. He soon afterward went to Rochester, Monroe county, New York. He was a member of the Home Guards during the war, joining in 1862. After the war he moved to Illinois and settled at Peoria, where he lived for a time. From there he came to Adams county, Iowa, and bought forty acres of wild land.
Here he has since lived; prosperity has attended him; he has added to his original purchase, and now owns 160 acres of line, well improved land in section 22, Carl township. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising, and also owns and operates a thresher, having had thirty years’ experience in threshing.

Mr. Smart was married in New York State to Miss Isabelle Dryden, who was born and reared in Dundee, Scotland, daughter of John and Katty Dryden. They have live sons, U. S. Grant, John, Dryden, Arthur and Thomas, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Agnes. Elizabeth is the wife of A. B. Poison, of Carl township, this county, and Agnes is the wife of William Pell, of Prescott township. Mr. Smart is a member of the Christian Union Church, as are also his wife and daughters.