Smith, W.H.H. (1845-?)

SMITH, MATTICE

Posted By: Laura Evans Schnabel (email)
Date: 2/14/2007 at 17:36:20

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Webster and Hamilton Counties, Iowa
Published 1888
Page 232

W.H.H. Smith is proprietor of the Clydesdale Stock Farm which is located in Fremont Township, two and a half miles northwest of Webster City. This farm contains 240 acres of good land, well located and is one of the best stock farms in the county. Mr. Smith makes a specialty of raising draft horses, and has on his farm some of the finest animals in the State. Mr. Smith was born in Chautauqua County, New York, August 11, 1845, a son of J.T. and Hannah (Hill)Smith, being the third of seven sons. When he was twenty years old he went to Huron County, Ohio, and lived in Bellville three years, and in September, 1869, came to Hamilton County. In 1871 he went to Independence, Iowa, and in 1873 went to DeKalb County, Illinois, where he lived two years, and in 1875 returned to Hamilton county and located on the farm where he has since lived. Mr. Smith was married January 22, 1870, to Miss Mary Mattice, daughter of P.W. Mattice, a prominent citizen of this county. They have five children--Fred H., D.E., Hattie, W.H. and Ernest Eugene. In polictics Mr. Smith is a Republican. He is a fair and honorable business man, an enterprising, public-spirited citizen, and one of the substantial and successful agriculturists and stockmen of Fremont Township.