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Born 1863, Miami county
From History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909)
CLARK Y. SMITH.
Clark Y. Smith, successfully carrying on agricultural pursuits in Madison township, is the owner of the old Kerns farm, comprising sixty-five acres of rich and productive land and situated on the north side of the Jalopa road, about two and a half miles south of Trotwood. Lie was born in Miami county, Ohio, on the lath of April, 1863, a son of Solomon and Emily (Yount) Smith. When a young man the father made his way from Pennsylvania to Miami county, Ohio, where he became a very prominent and prosperous agriculturist. Their family numbered twelve children.
During his school days. Clark Y. Smith assisted his father in the work of the fields, thus early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. His early training and experience proved of value to him when he started out in business life on his own account and he has met with a well merited and highly gratifying measure of success in his farming operations, being now the owner of a fine tract of land of sixty-five acres in Madison township. The fields annually yield golden harvests in return for the care and labor which he bestow upon them and he is widely recognized as a most enterprising and progressive citizen.
On the 19th of November, 1883, Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Ella Etter, a daughter of George and Mary (Hinebach) Etter. Her father, who was a native of Pennsylvania, became one of the pioneer settlers of Miami county, Ohio. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been horn nine children, namely: Emma, deceased; Minnie, the wife of Ira Juster, by whom she has a son, Floyd; Alma, who is the wife of Martin Burnside and has four children, Mary, Florence, Herbert and Alberta; Earl; Inez; Charles; Nellie; Ola; and Carl. The different members of the family belong to the conservative branch of the Dunkard church and are well known and highly esteemed throughout the community in which they reside.
As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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