Edmund J Smith

SMITH

Posted By: C Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/17/2007 at 01:19:29

Edmund J Smith, long connected with the blacksmith business of Monona County, is carrying on that line of trade in connection with the manufacture of spring wagons, carriages, etc, at Whiting. He came to Monona County in April 1868, and settled in Onawa, where be became the leading village blacksmith and there remained until 1873. At the latter date when there was nothing upon the town site of Whiting except Whittier’s store, the Grange warehouse and a pioneer hotel, he started his forge. He erected the second dwelling house in that village in the Spring of 1875, in which he still resides. In June, 1885 he commenced the erection of his present brick carriage shop. This is one of the best business places of the kind between Sioux City and the Missouri Valley, and in it he is still carrying on the business on an extensive scale. He is also dealing in carriage and wagon materials, iron and smithing coal.

Source: History of Monona County Iowa
Chicago National Pub Co 1890