Smith, Samuel

SMITH

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 21:09:09

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.741

SMITH, SAMUEL, farmer, Linn Township, Sec. 16; P. O. Lothrop; is a native of Kentucky; born in Henderson county, October 26, 1816; he emigrated, while a child, with his parents to Illinois, in Hamilton county, where he remained till about ten years old, when he removed to Schuyler county, Illinois, and remained till 1833, when he came to Burlington, this State, and lived for a short time; then to Henry county, and lived about eighteen years, and to this county in 1856; was first married to Hannah Watters, a native of Indiana, in 1837; who died in 1852; by this marriage they have three children living: Joel, Elias, and B. F.; his second marriage was to Mrs. Mary J. Herring, a native of Pennsylvania, in 1854; have one son, Caroline B.; Mr. Smith enlisted in the Black Hawk war in 1832, June 6, and served till its close; has been justice of the peace for five years; went to California in 1850, and to Oregon in 1866, and crossed the plains with ox teams.