L. L. Smith

SMITH, GOLDTHWAITE, DWIGHT

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/23/2004 at 22:34:34

L. L. Smith was born in Granby, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, May 12, 1830, and is a son of Elisha and Nancy (Goldthwaite) Smith, also natives of Massachusetts. When he was twenty-three years old he came west to Illinois, and settled on a farm in Bureau county, where he remained until 1860. In March, 1860 he came to Albion township, Butler county, and lived on a farm for three years. Afterwards he became proprietor of the hotel at New Hartford, remaining there until he took the office of sheriff, January 1, 1868, which office he held four years, and then returned to New Hartford, afterwards engaged in farming about three years, he finally settled himself in the insurance business.
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Mr. Smith has held the office of justice of the peace most of the time since 1872. In May, 1864 he enlisted in Company E, Forty-fourth Iowa, and served as First Lieutenant until honorably discharged at Davenport, Iowa, in September of that year. In 1851 he married Miss Adelia Dwight, also a native of Hampshire county, Massachusetts. Six children have been born to them, three of whom are now living, to-wit – William D., who is now principal of the Jackson public schools, Jackson county, Minnesota; Clara and Roscoe D.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 472