his brother, Dr. E. R. Smith, of Toledo. In the fall of that year he opened an office in Elberon, Tama county, and soon won gratifying professional recognition. On the 30th of September of that year he was married in Rock Island, Illinois, to Miss Ella Wells, a childhood playmate, and there their son, Roy Wells Smith, was born December 13, 1883. They resided at Elberon until March 4, 1885, when they removed to Nevada, where Dr. Smith has continuously engaged in practice to the present time with the exception of eleven months spent in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 1889 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his second wife, who died in Nevada on the 20th of February of that year, leaving three small children, Roy W., Alta and Olga. On the 1st of July, 1890, he married Mrs. Amanda S. Philp, of Rock Island, Illinois, a sister of his second wife, and they have two children, Ella and Donald W. The Doctor's eldest daughter, Etta Maude, who was born in Moline, Illinois, February 22, 1880, is now Mrs. J. K. Weaver, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Roy Wells, born in Elberon, Iowa, December 15, 1883, is a graduate of the Nevada public schools. He is now married and at the present writing is studying medicine in Drake University at Des Moines. Alta, born in Nevada, July 13, 1885, is at home. Olga, born in Nevada, February 3, 1888, is engaged in teaching school. Both she and her sister Alta are graduates of the high school and pursued a four years' course in Leander Clark College of Toledo, Iowa, being graduated therefrom in June, 1909, with the Bachelor of Science degree. Both now have state certificates. Ella Smith, the youngest daughter, born in Nevada, November 14, 1891, was graduated from the high school in 1911. Donald W., born in Nevada, May 27, 1899, is attending the home school.
Throughout the period of his residence in Nevada Dr. Smith has continuously engaged in practice and his ability has won him wide recognition. That his work has gained him more than local distinction is indicated by the fact that his alma mater in 1908 conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. For many years a liberal practice has been accorded him and he is today the loved family physician in many Nevada households, where his cheery presence inspires confidence. He has done post-graduate work in the Chicago Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital and in the Chicago Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, and at all times he keeps in close touch with the advancement of the profession through wide reading and research. Moreover, he is known in business circles as one of the organizers and stockholders of the People's Savings Bank of Nevada, of which he is now vice president, and he likewise aided in organizing the Nevada Gas Company and the Story County Independent Telephone Company, in each of which he is a director.
Dr. Smith holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and' also with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In his political views he is a republican but has never sought nor desired public office and has no ambition in that direction. He has served, however, as school director and the cause of education finds in him a warm friend. He