SMITH, G. W.

SMITH, WINTERBURN, CULL, LEE

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Date: 8/31/2004 at 12:38:17

Biography reproduced from page 484 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

G. W. Smith is the general agent of the Crystal Well Cement Curb, and is also carpenter and well-digger.

G. W. Smith was born in Yorkshire, near Leeds, England, June 14, 1844. When thirteen months of age his parents, Benjamin and Emma (Winterburn) Smith, moved to Kent county, province of Ontario, Canada. In 1868 Mr. Smith went to Floyd Co., Iowa, purchased a farm and lived there five years. He then sold out and came to Kossuth county, locating in Greenwood township, and purchasing a farm on section 26, township 98, range 29. He lived on this farm five years then removed to Algona, where he took charge of the Harrison House, now called the Kossuth County Hotel. After running this one year, he engaged in carpenter work. In 1880 Mr. Smith took the general agency for the Crystal Well, a cement wall or tubing, buying the right for the State of Illinois and ten counties in Iowa. In 1882 he came to Bancroft. Mr. Smith was married April 1, 1867, to Margaret, daughter of Henry and Hannah (Cull) Lee, of Kent Co., Canada. They have seven children—Henry, Benjamin F., Emma H., Ella M., George A., Frederick A. and William O. Mr. Smith is a republican in politics.