a market for about eighteen months. In April he moved back to Maxwell and engaged in the hotel business, where he now is. He has the only hotel at Maxwell, and keeps a first-class place. He is a Democrat in politics, has held several local offices, served as justice of the peace, and was a member of the town board for a number of years. He was married in Illinois on August 20, 1872, to Miss Mary C. Yount, a native of Pennsylvania, and the daughter of Henry Yount. Mr. and Mrs. Smeltzer have one child, William Otto, a bright lad of thirteen years. Mr. Smeltzer joined the I. O. O. F. Lodge in 1876, and represented his district in the Grand Lodge in 1885. On the organization of the lodge at Maxwell he was a charter member, and first noble grand of his lodge. Mr. Smeltzer is a pleasant, agreeable man, and is naturally suited and adapted to his present business.
Levi Smith, farmer, Nevada, Iowa. Many are the changes which have occurred since this esteemed citizen first became located here, and he has lived to see the growth of what was at that time an almost unsettled tract of land, to one of the most prosperous and influential counties in the State. Mr. Smith was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1825, attained his growth in that State, and was married in 1850 to Miss Mary Vincent, the daughter of Thomas B. -Vincent. Mr. Smith emigrated to Iowa in 1865, locating in Milford Township, and has remained there ever since. He is now the owner of 120 acres on Sections 27 and 28, and is a prosperous farmer. He enlisted as musician in the Eighteenth United States Infantry, and served in that capacity three years. In the spring of 1865 he enlisted as second lieutenant in the One Hundred and Eighty-Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. He then returned immediately to Iowa. He is a stanch Republican, and votes as he shot. To his marriage were born three children: M. F., Benjamin W. D. and Thomas V. Mr. Smith is the seventh in a family of eleven children born to Daniel and Elizabeth (Ogden) Smith, natives of New Jersey and Massachusetts, respectively. The children were named as follows: Moses, Aaron, Joseph, Levi, Hiram H., Francis M., Daniel O., Lydia, Jane, Mary and Martha E. The father of these children, Daniel Smith, was born in 1785, was the son of John Smith, and was one of eight children: Peter, John, Henry, David, Jacob, Daniel and two daughters. Elizabeth (Ogden) Smith, mother of our subject, was the daughter of Moses and Lydia Ogden, probably natives of Massachusetts, and was one of eight children: Lewis, Elias, Charles, George, Abigail, Jane, Sarah and Elizabeth.
Capt. I. L. Smith, abstract, loan and real-estate broker, has been giving his attention to this business since 1887, and has in his possession a complete set of abstract books, and under his control a large amount of valuable real estate. He was born in Somerset County; Penn., January 14, 1835, and is a son of John H. and Catherine (Dom) Smith, who were born in Franklin County, Penn., and Germany, in 1812 and 1813, and died in Somerset County, Penn., and McLean County, Ill., in 1862 and 1872, respectively. The mother came to the United States with her parents in 1819, and settled in Somerset County, Penn., where she grew to womanhood, met and married Mr. Smith. The paternal grandfather, Peter Smith, was born in the "Keystone State," and died there at a ripe old age. Capt. I. L. Smith is one of the three surviving members of a family of seven children, and his rearing and early school training were received in the town of Berlin, Penn. On the 4th of September, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Fifty-fourth Penn-