SMITH, Nicholas M. 1841-1892

SMITH, MEYER, BLAKE, KREBSBACH, NICKELS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/5/2012 at 12:15:44

Nicholas M. Smith, president of the village of Adams, was born in Baden, Germany, December 6, 1841, son of Xavier and Tressa (Meyer) Smith. He came to America in 1854 with his father and brothers, Thomas and Charles, first locating in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After a few months, Nicholas came to Lee county, Illinois, accompanied by his father.

His father later went back to Poughkeepsie, stayed a year, and subsequently rejoined Nicholas in Lee county, where he purchased forty acres and farmed five years. Xavier the father and Nicholas the son then came to Mitchell county, Iowa, being followed the following year by the mother and other children, and here Xavier purchased a quarter section. There they farmed until the mother, wife of Xavier, died, and then the farm was sold. Nicholas at this time received from his father an eighty-acre farm in Adams township.

After working the farm for two years he sold it and purchased a farm in Mitchell County, Iowa, where he carried on farming until 1892, when he came to the village of Adams and retired. In addition to his present office, Mr. Smith has done public service as a township supervisor while in Mitchell county.

He married Elizabeth Blake, daughter of John A. Blake, and this union has been blessed with five children: Alice, the wife of John H. Krebsbach; Annie, the wife of Michael Krebsbach; William and Fred (Twins); Mary, the wife of Michael Nickels.

HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, MINNESOTA, 1911.
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Photo of Nicholas from HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883.

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