Amos B. Smith 1879

SMITH, HUDSON, HULL

Posted By: LuAnn Goeke (email)
Date: 5/17/2010 at 21:45:55

A.B. Smith, farmer, Sec. 17, P.O. Union Center, owns 125 acres of land. He was born in Vermont April 3, 1814, and when but 2 years old his parents removed to Cayuga Co., NY, where he received his education; in 1840, his father and mother dying in New York, he removed to Washtenaw Co., Mich. He commenced farming, which he followed continually until 1854, when, becoming dissatisfied, he removed to Jackson Co. and settled in Fairfield Township, where he has since resided. His first wife was Eliza Hudson, a native of New York, whom he married in that state in 1842; she died in Michigan a few years later; they had three children, one only survives - James Henry, who is married and resides in Shelby Co., Iowa; he married again, Mary W. Hull, a native of Vermont, in Washtenaw Co., Mich. in 1851, and had eleven children, six still living [1879] - Edwin D., George H., Helen E., Agnes Mary, Lucy Amelia and Milton C.; his second wife died in Jackson Co. April 10, 1874. He was a very poor man when he started in Iowa, and now, after a life of hard work, economy, and strict attention to business, he has a comfortable homestead and a fortune of from $8,000 to $10,000. He and his family are all members of the Baptist Church; he is a Democrat. - 1879 History of Jackson Co. Iowa, pg. 780-781.