James M. Smith

As printed in 1901

JAMES M. SMITH.

Many men well known in Missouri were born in Illinois and own to a son's regard for their mother state. One such is James M. Smith, of Carterviile, Jasper county, Missouri, who has been mining in the county for thirteen years, during ten years of which time he has been mining and prospecting on his own account.

James M. Smith was a son of Joel and Anna (Krutzinger) Smith. His father, a native of Virginia, eventually came to Newton county, Missouri, where he now owns a good farm. His wife was a native of Clay county, Illinois, but was descended from old Pennsylvania stock. Their son, William M. Smith, brother of the subject of this sketch, is connected with the latter's mining enterprises.

Mr. Smith came from his native town in Clay county, Illinois, at the age of seventeen, and soon afterward began mining. For three years he was superintendent for the Union Mining Company at Carterville. He opened up the R. R. mine on the Perry lease, and is now operating the Wonder mine on the Beckwith-PIall land at Prosperity. This mining property comprises ten acres and a one-hundred-ton mill, and four shafts are worked there. His knowledge of mining is comprehensive and his attention to business has been so strict as to be extraordinary, and, all in all, his success has been most marked.

Mr. Smith married Miss Laura Smith, daughter of Cornelius Smith, an earl)- settler and farmer of Newton county, Missouri, and they have had four children born to them: Otho, Ethel, Chalmers and an infant son. Mr. Smith is a Woodman of the World and a member of the Order of Pyramids, and is highly respected as a citizen of much patriotism and public spirit.

* w. w. Mcdowell.

For many years W. W. McDowell has been one of the leading men of Jasper county. His residence is on section 12, in Twin Grove township, where he owns a fine farm of seventy-seven acres. The birth of Mr. Mc- Dowell was in Virginia, on May 17, 1833, and he was a grandson of James McDowell, who was born in Ireland and came to America while still a young man. The parents of our subject were James and Sophia (Hall) McDowell, the former of whom was born in Kentucky, although he was reared in Virginia, and was a farmer by occupation. In 1836 he removed his family to Montgomery county, Indiana, and in 1868 he came to Kansas, dying there in his eighty-ninth year. He took an active part both in politics and religion, being a Whig, and later a Republican, and in the latter was one of the leaders in the Methodist church, in which he was a valued member for over fifty years and was a man of unblemished character through life. The mother of our subject was born and reared in Ohio. Her father was William

As printed in The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.