place until 1900, when he removed to Jamaica, Iowa, but after residing there for three years he decided to become a resident of Story county and so located in Ames in 1903, where he continued to live up to the time of his death in 1909, at the age of fifty-one years. He left a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Boone county and one hundred and fifty-five acres in Story county.
Mr. Ringgenberg united with the Methodist Episcopal church nine years before his death and continued to hold membership in that denomination at the time of his demise. He was an ever ready and stanch defender of the principles of temperance and therefore always cast his vote for the candidates of the prohibition party, feeling that its policy is best adapted to improve and strengthen the moral status of the nation. He was a man of sound principles, high standards of citizenship and incorruptible integrity and upon these he founded his life as well as his business. He was born and reared on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits until his retirement from active labor nine years before his death. He was a successful man and left his family a competence which assures Mrs. Ringgenberg of always having sufficient to provide her with all of the necessities and some of the luxuries of life.
WINFIELD SCOTT SMITH.
The Buckeye state has contributed many stalwart sons who have assisted in the upbuilding of Iowa and among them may be named Winfield S. Smith, well known in Story county as one of its most energetic and progressive citizens. He was born at Mount Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, October 26, 1850, a son of Aaron and Sarah (Paddock) Smith. The father was born in Franklin county, Ohio, and came of Dutch ancestry, the early members of the family in America arriving during the colonial period. The great-grandfather on the paternal side served in the Revolutionary war from New Jersey. The Smiths came to Ohio about 1810 and entered land in Franklin county, having the opportunity at that time, had they so desired, to take up the tract now occupied by the capitol building. Aaron Smith began his business career as a farmer but later learned the iron molder's trade and subsequently maintained a foundry at different times at Mount Vernon, Westerville and Marion, Ohio, also manufacturing plows, corn shellers and iron for railroad uses at the last named place. While at Westerville he enlisted in the Civil war in the spring of 1864 as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the conflict. He was one of a family of eight brothers, all of whom were valiant soldiers for the cause of the Union. Two of the brothers were wounded in battle and one of them was taken prisoner at the battle of Shiloh. Seven of the brothers returned