Smith, W.

SMITH

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 4/4/2008 at 22:47:02

W. Smith, blacksmith, Crescent City, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1830. At the age of sixteen years, he began an apprenticeship of four years at blacksmithing; after serving his full term, he began working at his trade, and spent the time until 1869 in Greene County, Ill., Springfield, Ohio, Louisville, Ky., Columbus, Ind., and Council Bluffs, Iowa, spending one year in the latter place and then moving to Crescent City, where he has since resided; he has been a hard and industrious worker, and is well established in business. In 1859, he married Miss Mary Wilson, a native of Tennessee, but a resident of Missouri at the time of their marriage. They have but one child, Charles, who is now in his eighteenth year, and is a sober, steady and industrious young man. Mr. Smith is a Democrat, but not a politician. He is able to trace the genealogy of his family back to his grandfather Smith, who was a native of Ireland; his parents were John and Elizabeth (Bellville) Smith, the later a native of Brandywine, Del. (From the 1882 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa)