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Born 1839
From The history of Buchanan County, Missouri (1881)
A. T. SMITH, of the firm of Smith, Frazer & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, was born August 14, 1839, Cooper County, Missouri. Up to the age of fifteen he worked on a farm and in a tanyard. In 1866, he commenced clerking for H. K. Judd & Co., and in 1869 engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe business. Mr, Smith married Miss Louise Wise, a native of Missouri, May 13, 1873. She was born in St. Louis, December 25,
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1848, and was raised in San Francisco, California. They have one child — George A., born September 6, 1878. Mrs. S. is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Smith has assisted liberally in building churches and school houses. He lost considerably by the late war. He has all through life extended a helping hand to the needy and unfortunate. Mr. Smith is one of the fortunate business men of St. Joseph, starting out in life a poor boy. He has achieved a success in business which ranks him financially with the representative wholesale merchants of the city.
As printed in The history of Buchanan County, Missouri (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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