The 1883 History of Johnson County sketches four Smith households, and it never says that any of them were related, so each is kept apart here. Two came from England by the same road: James and Sarah A. Smith lived in Philadelphia and Salem, Ohio, before settling in Graham Township in 1853, and Z. Smith, who married Anna Harrison in Philadelphia in 1850, followed the same route to Graham Township in November 1854. Robert A. Smith of Bennington County, Vermont, settled on open prairie in Section 4 of Fremont Township in the fall of 1856 and built up a 160-acre farm near Lone Tree. In Iowa City lived Mrs. Susan F. Smith, born in Pike County, Ohio, in 1823, the eldest daughter of Governor Lucas by his second wife, who married Dr. William L. Smith of Baltimore at Muscatine in 1842. The books name several other Smiths in passing, and a few are listed at the end. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Johnson County history.
Earliest in the record
Mrs. Susan F. Smithborn 1823Most recent in our records
Miss Susan F. Smithborn 1849Each number matches a section below. Tap a name to jump to that person.
Settler in Newport, now Graham Township
, was born in Lancashire, England, in 1824, a daughter of James and Mary Stoll. Came to America June 1, 1848, and landed in New York. She was married to James Smith, of England, in 1848. They lived in Philadelphia, Pa., from 1848 to 1852, and then moved to Salem, Ohio, and in 1853, came to Johnson county, Iowa, and settled in Newport, (now Graham township), June 11, 1853. Her husband died May 4, 1868, and was one of the first buried in the Oasis cemetery. They have five children, two sons and three daughters.
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Z. SMITH, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office. Oasis; born in England in 1825; came to Philadelphia in 1848, and while there he married, in 1850, Miss Anna Harrison. He went from there to Salem, Ohio, and in November, 1854, he came to Iowa and settled in Graham township, where he now lives. Mr. Smith has eight children living, his oldest married and living in Cedar county, and a daughter married and living in Cass county, Iowa.
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Farmer and stock-raiser near Lone Tree
ROBERT A. SMITH, farmer and stock-raiser, post office Lone Tree; was born in Bennington county, Vermont, February 12, 1833, where he spent his early life and attended seminary. In the fall of 1854 he went to Grant county, Wisconsin, where he remained about one year; then came to Jasper county, this state, and to Johnson county the fall of 1856, and settled on the farm he now lives on in section 4, Fremont township, this then being an open prairie. He built a house, and has made all the improvements on the same, and now owns 160 acres of fine land and enclosed with hedge fence, and has a very pleasant home. He was married November 28, 1855, to Miss Eudora Dinwiddle, a native of Evansville, Indiana, and a daughter of Dr. Wm. Dinwiddie, now of Oxford, this county. She is a sister of Lieut, Wm. Dinwiddie of Washington, D. C. They have five children, viz.: Charles C, born May 7, 1857, married October 6, 1881, to Miss Jessie F. Fisher of Princeton, Illinois, now mail agent on the C, R. I. & P. railroad; Hattie M., born January 1, 1859; W. Burr, born October 24, 1860; Helen M., born November 26, 1862; and Fred B., born December 24, 1864. In 1875 Mr. Smith moved to Muscatine, where he remained five years, to give his children an education. The two girls are now engaged in teaching. Mr. Smith has held several township offices, and is a member of the A. O. U. W., and also of the Congregational Church.
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Daughter of Governor Lucas; resident of Iowa City
, a resident of Iowa City, the eldest daughter of Governor Lucas by his second wife; was born April 25, 1823, in Piketown, Pike county, Ohio. She came to Burlington, Iowa, with her father in May, 1840. She was married at Muscatine, October 17, 1842, to
Dr. William L. Smith of Baltimore, Maryland. He died August 31, 18M. This union is blessed with one child, a daughter, born August 15, 1843, and named Florence A., now the wife of A. L. Clark of Iowa Citv. Her mother is a direct descendant from the celebrated Sumner family of Massachusetts. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City, and has been a faithful and consistent member of the church since she was twenty-seven years of age.
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Daughter of Dr. William L. and Susan F. Smith
Settler of Washington Township; the books give no link to the households above
Wife of Zachariah A. Clark; her parents are not named
Wife of Benjamin Swisher; her parents are not named
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