Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES

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ALBERT M. SMITH

Albert M. SMITH , of St John's Township, was among the settlers who found their way to Harrison County, in the autumn of 1856. He came from Putnam County, Ind., in a covered wagon, requiring twenty-one days for the trip. He was a single man at the time and made his home with his brother, J.M., who came the year before. He worked at various things including the herding of cattle, in this county and in Pottawattamie. In 1858 he rented a farm in the last named county, and remained there about three years. In 1864, he bought forty acres of wild land of John Jenkins in St. John's Township, and has since added forty acres more land to his place. He was born in 1838, in Tennessee. He is one of a family of nine children. His father was Andrew SMITH, a native of Tennessee, whom married Lucinda WALKER.

Our subject was married to Martha MCINTOSH, daughter of M.B. and Elizabeth MCINTOSH, in St. John's Township, February 12, 1860. Her parents came to Harrison County in 1856 and located where Missouri Valley now stands. Our subject and his wife are the parents of two children � Robert Boone, born June 1861, and died in 1863, and Max, born October 31, 1864, now living in Oklahoma, Millie E., born October 17, 1868.

Mr. and Mrs. SMITH, are members of the Baptist Church at Loveland.

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