Henry E. Smith

As printed in 1901

HENRY E. SMITH.

Henr\- E. Smith, the well-known and efficient secretary of the Star Club of Cedar Rapids, was born in Ontario county, New York, on the 15th of June, 1838. His father, Daniel M. Smith, was a native of Vermont and a worthy representative of the sturdy Green Mountain boys, his ancestors being pioneers of that state. When a young man he removed to Ontario county, New York, where he married Miss Luciuda Hickox, a native of that county. There he carried on farming for some years, but in 1856 came west and took up his residence in Linn county, Iowa, purchasing a farm near Cedar Rapids, where he followed his chosen calling throughout the remainder of his life, doing there in 1875, at the ripe old age of seventy years. His wife survived him two years and passed away at the home of our subject in 1877.

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Ontario county. New York, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for three years. He was also interested in stock raising, making a specialty of sheep. In 1868 he purchased a farm two and one-half miles west of Cedar Rapids and in the spring of 1869 he returned and resumed farming here. To the further improvement and cultivation of his land he devoted his energies until the death of his wife, since which lime he has made his home in Cedar Rapids.

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As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.