FRANKLIN C. SMITH
Franklin C. Smith settled in 1860, on the southwest quarter of section 5, of Pymosa township, where he still resides. He purchased at that time, eighty acres of unimproved land. He now has two hundred and twenty-six acres, under good cultivation and well improved. Mr. Smith was born in Butler county, Ohio in 1846. In 1859, he removed with his parents, Andrew J., and Eleanor Smith, to Randolph county, Indiana, which was his home till he came to Cass county. During the war of the rebellion Mr. Smith was in the employ of the government at Hamilton, Ohio. His parents still reside in Randolph county. He was married in Indiana, to Mary E. Butler, daughter of Edward Butler, now a resident of this township. They have two children--Mary Eleanor and Daisy A. Mr. Smith is a Republican, politically.
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. 560.
