A. J. Smith

SMITH, KING, HENRY, BUTLER, CRAIG, WEEKS

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Date: 5/23/2004 at 22:31:12

A. J. Smith, attorney at law, of Allison, is a native of Rensselaer county, New York, where he was born in 1848, but brought up at Monroe, Greene county, Wisconsin. He began the study of law at Hampton, Franklin county, Iowa, with the firm of King & Henry, being admitted to the bar in 1878, at Marshalltown. He formed a law partnership with L. F. Butler, Esq., at Northwood, Worth county, Iowa, with whom he remained about two years. He came to Allison in May 1881. The law firm of Craig & Smith have a large and increasing practice. They also transact a general real estate and abstract business. Mrs. Smith was formerly Miss Marietta Weeks, a native of Massachusetts. Her father, Mr. W. Weeks, is a prominent merchant of Hampton.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 343