Smith, William

SMITH

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/9/2021 at 21:11:03

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.723

SMITH, WILLIAM, farmer, Allen Township, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle; born in Derbyshire, England, about 1826, and was twenty-two years of age when he came to America and located in Shelby county, Indiana, and remained only about one year; while there he bought 400 acres of land where he now lives, without coming to see it; he then returned to England and remained for six months, and came back to Indiana and to this county in the spring of 1857; he has been twice married, first, to Martha Nast, June, 1855, a native of England, who is now deceased; married again to Anna C. Henley, Dec. 24, 1873, a native of Brown county, Illinois; they have three children: Mary, Wm. and Henry; his wife has five children by first marriage: Jennie, Charles, Annie, George and Albert; has a farm of sixty acres; he has made two trips to England since he came to this State; he bought and sold the first hogs in the county.