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Born 1862, Morrow county
From Past and present of Wyandot County, Ohio; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement; (1913)
CHARLES F. SMITH.
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Charles F. Smith acquired his education in the district schools of Morrow comity and afterward spent two years at Iberia College. He farmer afterward until 1887 and then be-
, Google came connected with the Central Ohio Buggy Company of GaUon, Ohio, with whom he remained for about thi-ee years. He spent one year thereafter on a farm in Kansas but in 1891 came to Upper Sandusky and entered the insiu-anee and loan business, with which he has been connected since that time. He has been very successful in the conduct of his interests and has secured a large and representative patronage, accorded him in recognition of his honorable and straightforward business methods. He handles life and fire insurance and all kinds of loans, negotiating all of the business of this character done by the Union Central Life Insurance Company in this district. He has besides other business interests in Upper Sandusky, being a stockholder in the Citizens Savings Bank.
Mr. Smith married, on December 30, 1889, at Lexington, Ohio, Miss Clara Logan. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one daughter, Grace E., who is a graduate of Madam Baur's Conservatory of Miisic at Cincinnati.
Mr. Smith has always been eminently active and progressive in his citizenship and since casting his first vote has given loyal support to the democratic party. He was elected to represent his district in the state legislature in 1903 and took his seat in 1904, serving as a member of the seventy-sixth and seventy-seventh general assemblies. During this time he lent the weight of his influence to all progressive public measures, standing for right, reform and progress and constantly promoting the interests of his constituents in every possible way. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Methodist Brotherhood, being a devout member of the Methodist church. Mr. Smith belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, taking a deep interest in the general expansion and development of the city, and Upper Sandusky regards him as a valued addition to the ranks of her business
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Their biographies name Charles F. Smith: Ebenezer Baughman (b. 1824)
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