WILLIAM T. SMITHER
William T. Smither came a short time after Andrew Trimmer and entered land on section 11. He was born in Missouri in 1844. His father, Joel Smither, was a native of North Carolina and his mother of Kentucky. When quite young Williams' mother died and he was reared by a sister with whom he came to Delaware county in 1852. In September 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He was under General Sherman in the siege of Vicksburg and in the first and second battles of Jackson, Mississippi. He was also in the engagements at Tupelo and Selma, Alabama, and Columbus, Georgia, and was mustered out at Atlanta, in August 1865, and has since been engaged in farming. He purchased his present farm in section 8, Lincoln township, in 1881, of David C. Reed. He owns eighty acres of good land and it is all nicely improved. Mr. Smither has held most of the township offices and was a member of the school board when the first school house was built in the township. He was married in 1881 to Mary Miller, a daughter of Joseph Miller. They have two daughters--Effie B. and Lillian M.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 765-766.
