L. F. Smith

FARRAND, SMITH

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/13/2004 at 17:47:51

L. F. Smith, Winterset, cashier of the Citizen's National Bank; born in Warren county, Indiana, in 1837, and when young removed with his parents to Iowa; he received an academical education and was for a time engaged in teaching, and afterward engaged in the mercantile business; in 1866 he entered the employ of the National State Bank, of Burlington, and remained there over five years; in 1873 he came to Winterset and connected himself with the Citizen's National Bank, and has charge of its affairs the greater portion of the time; his financial ability and integrity have never been questioned; careful and accurate, he has the fullest confidence of the people; as a man, upright, reliable and honorable, and justly rating his own self-respect and the deserved esteem of his fellow citizens as more valuable than wealth or fame; he married Miss A. C. Farrand in 1860; she was a native of Ohio; they have six children: Helen G., Lester F., Charles H., Ada E., Mabel G. and Agnes.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 551