The Smith Families of Randolph County, Indiana

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HENKY B. SMITH, Hartford, Octy, Isn.

Henry B. Smith is a son of (he late Judge Jeremiah Smith and Cynthia Dye Smilh, was born in Winchester, Randolph Co., Ind., Noyemher 27, 1847. He attended the common schools at Winchester until the fall of 1802, at which time he entered the Northwestern Christian University at Indianapolis, where he remained two years. In 186-5, he began to learn the trade of a jeweler, and in ISCO, after completing his trade, he removed to Hartford City, Blackford Co., Ind., where he now resides. Engaging in the jewelry business, he continued therein with satisfactory success till 1876. In that year Mr. Smith was elected Clerk of the Blackford Circuit Curt, and he is at this time the Uemocralio nominee for.Joint Representative for the counties of Wells and Blackford. In 1870, he, along w.th others, organized the Ciliieus' Bank of Hartford City, and at the organizitioa thereof he was chosen to bo its President, and that position he still remains. February 8, 1872, Mr. S. was united in wedlock to Miss Nancy Alice Holliday, only daughter of the late Joseph W. and Elisabeth J. C. Holliday, and there have been born to them three daughters—Cynthia A., Elizabeth C. and Gretta. Mr. S. is a worthy member of a prominent family, children of a distinguished progenitor and pioneer, Judge Jeremiah Smith, a sketch of whose varied life has been elsewhere given. Although comparatively young he has already attained a fine reputation and an honorable standing among his fellow citizens.

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CLINTON D. SMITH, Winchester, Ind., was born at Williamsburg, Clerm.itit Co., Ohio, February 20, 1828; he was the son of Stephen and Sarah (Kain).Smith, who were of German descent, and came to Ohio from New Jersey. Mr. Smith, Sr., was a rail-wright by trade, but early placed his son, Clinton 1) to learn the printing business in the office of the county paper published at Batavia. Voung Smith went to Iowa, In 1847, and engaged in publishing the Ottumwa Ciiurier for eighteen months, but on account of poor health was obliged todispose of it, after which he returned to Ohio, and was engaged on the Herald of Freedom n.i Wilmington for two years, and on the tnilfprmlenl at Greenfield for two years. Mr. Smith came to Indiana in 1864, and engaged to publish the Connersville Telegraph for one year, during which time he was married to Miss Eliza Irvin, daughter of Robert Irvin, late of Randolph County, October 11, 1855, who has in all respects been to him a worthy companion, and is a lady of excellent social standing. They are the parents of four children, three of whom are living. At the beginning of 1850, Mr. Smith removed to Winchester, and purchased the Journal, and began the publieution of the first Republican paper in Eastern Indiana; he continued its proprietor for four years, after which he purchased the Tmtn at Muncie, Ind., in which publication he was engaged nt the breaking-out of the rebellion, when lie sold out.and enlisted in the Nineteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, where he served one year,- when he returned and aided in recruiting the Kighly-fourth Regiment, enlisting as a private in Company E; he shared in its toilsome and dangerous campaigns, and was promoted to First lieutenant of Company C for good conduct; he was severely wounded at Chickamauga, his left arm being shattered, from the elTects of which he remains an invalid. He was honorably discharged, having faithfully served his country for three years. Since his return, he has been engaged in Iheprinting business as foreman of the Herald, and recently in the same capacity with the Journal. Mr. Smith is not a member of any church, but is liberal in his views on theological questions; he has led a busy life, and is deserving the esteem in which he is held by his friends and neighbors.

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ANDREW JACKSON SMITH. Andrew Jackson Smith has been a resident of Randolph County all his life, and is engaged in farming and running a saw-mill, in both of which enterprises he has been quite successful. He is the son of Durant and Eli/iabeth Smith, and was born September 16, 1842. He is the tenth of a family of twelve children, of whom ten are living. His parents were born and raised in North Carolina, and came to this State and county in the year 1830, where his father still resides, his mother having died November-23, 1879. Andrew's youth was uneventful, save that he was compelled to battle against poverty, and for this reason his education is very much limited, having been received from the district schools of the county and one term at Fountain City, Wayne County. Realizing the want of an education himself, he is a strong advocate of popular education, and is making every effort and sacrifice to educate his children. His oldest son, Arthur, is at this time attending the Winchester High School. Mr. Smith was married to Miss Elizabeth H. Hobbick September 16, 1864. His wife is an amiable Christian lady, and is a native of this county, and was born January 30, 1845. She is the daughter of Chri.-itian and Christina Hobbick, who were natives of Germany and came to this country about fifty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of seven interesting children, all of whom are living, as follows: Arthur D., born September 10, 1866; Milo V., March 8, 1867; Ida L., November 23, 1869; Delia V., September 24, 1872; William J., March 31, 1875; Mary C. E., October 31, 1877; Bessie A., April 7, 1881. Mr. Smith is owner and proprietor of a farm of eighty-five acres, under a high state of cultivation. He has recently erected a beautiful two-story frame residence, which is both convenient and commodious, an exact sketch of which is given in this work. In addition to farming, Mr. Smith has owned and run a saw-mill for the most part since 1872. This mill is in good repair, and he has been quite successful in this enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are acceptable members of the Society of Friends, the former having a birthright in the church, and the latter has been a member for about fifteen years. Mr, Smith has always been an active Republican, and although never having asked for an office has been of much service to the party of his choice. He is active in all the moral reforms of the day. lie and his excellent wife are useful members of the church and honored and respected citizens merchant, and resides at New Dnyin Greene County, N. Y.. August 7, died in the spring of 1882. Pardon Sherman was a second cousin of Gen. W. T. Sherman; Mary Sherman, widow of Pardon, still resides near her son Larmon. Our subject was educated in the common schools and the old Randolph County Seminary. lie began life by teaching school; he began mercantile business at New Dayton, Franklin Township, in 1866, and continued till 1866, when he went to Minnesota. He remained there till 1870, when he returned to New Dayton. While in.Minnesota, he sold drugs and groceries. In 1875, he erected a business house on the opposite side of the road where he had been engaged, where he now holds the fort. He carries an investment of over $50,000, it being a general assortment of all kinds of goods. He has sold in a single year $12,000 worth of goods. He was married, in 1856, to Miss Sarah Mann. They had one child, which died, and Mrs. Sherman died in Minnesota. In 1876, Mr. Sherman married Mary Ullum. They are both members of the M. E. Church.

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BENJAMIN SMITH, farmer, P.O. Bloomingspurt. Born in this county August 10, 1828. His father. Temple Smith, was born in Kentucky July 20, 1805. His mother, Priscilla (Crosby) Smith, was a native of Alabama, born May 5, 1810. Mr. Smith was married, April 12, 1849, to Ellen Engle, who was born in New Jersey October 3, 1828. Her father and mother, Job and Louisa C. (Foreman) Engle, were natives of New Jersey Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had born to them— Isaac, June 23,1850; Wesley 0., September 15, 1857; John, March 12, 1800; Mary, August 12, 1865; Priscilla, March 12, 1808, and Rosella, born March 20, 1871. Mr. Smith owns a well improved farm of 160 acres in Section 13, on which he resides. He is always frank nnd always hospitable to friend and stranger; a kind husband and father, and genial as a companion and associate.

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COPPY C. SMITH is;the son of James C. and Jane D. Smith. J. C. Smith was born in Pennsylvania, Greene County, September 28, 1819, and emigrated to Ohio in 1827. His wife, Jane D. Smith, was born in Butler County, Ohio, October 25, 1821. They had five children, viz.: Coppy C, born January 5, 1840;' Jessie D., born September 22, 1841; Alfred R., born January 23, 1844; Alioe, born July 5, 1849; Laura, born July 30, 1852; all in Butler County, Ohio. Coppy C. Smith, was born in the year 1840; he moved to Union County, Ind., in 1866, and in 1.867 settled on a farm near the toll-gate, northwest of Union City. Romaining there two years, he changed his residence to Union Oily, which has since tjiat time been his home. Hi* business in Union City has been the keeping of Uyerjt stable,' and aled of a boarding house. Mr. C. was married March 0, 1862, to Miss Lavina Gear, of Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, who was born in 183.8; They have had four children, only twoof whom are now living, viz.; Lilly, born May 20, '1867: Emma, born April 13, 1871. Mr. C. C. Smith is a Democrat in politics, and so also is his r.other,.james C.Smith, who has resided for many years in Randolph County, and now lives at Union City.

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CALVIN SMITH, M. D.

Success in what are popularly termed the learned professions is the legitimate result of merit and painstaking endeavor. In commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but professional advancement is gained only by critical study and consecutive research long continued. One of the leading physicians and surgeons of a past generation in Monroe township, Randolph county, one indeed, who took his place in the front rank of medical men in this section of the Hoosier state during a period of thirty-six years, and who will be held in grateful remembrance for many decades to come was the late Dr. Calvin Smith. The large success which crowned his life work, coupled with his ripe experience and kind heart enabled him to bring comfort, hope and confidence to the sick room and he also brought sunshine into many a home erstwhile shrouded in gloom. Much of this same sunshine and happiness fled when the people among whom his name had become a household word heard the news of his transition to a higher plane of endeavor.

Dr. Smith was born in Fayette county, Indiana, August 25, 1845. He was a son of Ezra and Phebe (Brown) Smith, natives of New York and Ohio, respectively. They came to Fayette county, Indiana when young and were married there, and there Ezra Brown engaged in carpentering and farming, but his death occurred in Marion county, this state, in July, 1865; his widow survived over thirty years, making her home at Indianapolis. They were both faithful members of the Christian church. They were the parents of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, all now deceased but two daughters.

Calvin Smith spent his early boyhood in Fayette county, being nine years old when he removed with his, parents to Marion county, Indiana, where he received his early education, and then attended the schools of Indianapolis, where he prepared for college. In 1872 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended the Eclectic College of Medicine two terms, from which he received a degree in 1876. He also attended the Eclectic Medical Association, of Indianapolis, from which he was graduated on May 13, 1885. From 1870 until 1876 he was engaged in practice in Indianapolis, and in the latter year came to Farmland, where he spent the rest of his life, a successful practitioner of medicine for a period of thirty-six years. In his earlier career he also practiced for a time in Muncie. He remained a student all his life and had great success as a general practitioner, building up a large and lucrative practice which extended over a wide territory.

Dr. Smith was married on November 30, 1872, in Dayton, O., to Jennie Flood, a native of Montgomeiy county, that state, her birth having occurred November 20, 1847. She was a daughter of John L. Flood and wife, both natives of Ohio, where they grew up and married and lived until 1850, when they removed to Randolph county, Indiana, and engaged in farming until their deaths, the father passing away in 1902 and the mother in 190. Their family consisted of twelve children. Five children were born to Dr. Smith and wife, all of whom died in infancy. Politically the Doctor Avas a Republican, and he belonged to the Free and Accepted Masons. He was a member of the Christian church. He was summoned to his eternal rest on July 12, 1912, at the age of sixty-seven years.

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JOHN LAWRENCE SMITH.

John Lawrence Smith, a native of New England, was born November 30, 1860. His father was a native American and his mother a daughter of Erin. At the outbreak of the Civil war, the father enlisted and was in the Union army a year or more when he was transferred to the navy. He was, killed by an explosion on the flag-ship of the fleet sometime in the latter part of the war. The widow, then left with three small children — the subject of this sketch aged five, Kate three, and Minnie one — found herself penniless and homeless in the streets of New York City. Sickness and exhaustion had overtaken her, and she was lifted to an ambulance in Bleeker street one autumn day and taken to Bellevue Hospital to die. Her three fatherless children were transported up the Hudson to Randall's Island, and consigned to the House of Refuge. Here, after a few months, Minnie sickened and died. In May, 1867, John and Kate were given over along with thirty other children from Randall's Island, to Charles Loring Brace, at the head of the Children's Aid Society at that time, nd when taken across the river, found themselves a portion of two passenger coach loads of orphan children and waifs gathered up in the city, preparatory to finding homes for them in the West.

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