SMITH, THOMAS

SMITH, EKINS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/17/2019 at 13:34:42

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

SMITH, THOMAS, dairyman and ice-dealer ; was born in England Aug. 20, 1815 ; lived there until 1848, when he emigrated to America ; came to Iowa and located in Fort Madison the same year, arriving there in June, 1848. While in England, married Mary Ekins in 1837 ; after coming here he kept a dairy for a long time ; he owns Island No. 14 in the Mississippi River, opposite Fort Madison, and has served steam boats with milk day and night during the summer season for twenty-eight years ; he has also been engaged in the ice business over twenty years. Has held the office of City Alderman. They have six children—Robert, Walter, Ekin, Edwin B., Mayme and Sidney T.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879