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Born 1866
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
GEORGE H. SMITH (1887), teacher of the school in district No. 91, Ewington township, is one of the best known educators of western Jackson county and has devoted his entire life to educational work.
Mr. Smith was born in Phoenix, Michigan, April 25, 186G. AVhen four years of age his parents moved to Dodgeville, Iowa county, Wisconsin, and in that town our subject grew to manhood and secured his early education. He was graduated from the Dodgeville high school in 1886 and later took a course of study at the Iowa state normal school, Cedar Falls. He completed his education in the Cherokee (Iowa) Institute, from which he was graduated in 1891.
During the years Mr. Smith was securing his education he spent the summer months working on farms and teaching at intervals. He came to Jackson county in 1887 and for the last twenty years has been engaged in teaching school, having taught in Jackson county during the past fifteen years. He has had charge of the west school in district No. 91 for the last 6ix years. Mr. Smith owns the northeast quarter of section 14, Ewington township, where he
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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