JOHN L. SMITH
John L. Smith is a native of Indiana, born in Dearborn county, February 8, 1837. When he was nine years old his parents moved to Canada and settled in Kings county, where they lived eight years, then moved to Winnebago county, Illinois. The subject of this sketch went to De Witt county and engaged in farming one year, thence to Clay county, Iowa. Two years later he returned to Winnebago county, and carried on his father's farm until 1870, when he came to Cass county, and bought land in section 22, of Edna township, where he lived until later, when he sold out and removed to Noble township, purchasing land in section 26. Mr. Smith was married in 1863, to Henriette Whitman. Nine children have been born to them. Mr. Smith's farm contains two hundred acres of well improved land.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani 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. 664.
