Robert A. Smith

As printed in 1883

ROBERT A. SMITH, farmer and stock-raiser, post office Lone Tree; was born in Bennington county, Vermont, February 12, 1833, where he spent his early life and attended seminary. In the fall of 1854 he went to Grant county, Wisconsin, where he remained about one year; then came to Jasper county, this state, and to Johnson county the fall of 1856, and settled on the farm he now lives on in section 4, Fremont township, this then being an open prairie. He built a house, and has made all the improvements on the same, and now owns 160 acres of fine land and enclosed with hedge fence, and has a very pleasant home. He was married November 28, 1855, to Miss Eudora Dinwiddle, a native of Evansville, Indiana, and a daughter of Dr. Wm. Dinwiddie, now of Oxford, this county. She is a sister of Lieut, Wm. Dinwiddie of Washington, D. C. They have five children, viz.: Charles C, born May 7, 1857, married October 6, 1881, to Miss Jessie F. Fisher of Princeton, Illinois, now mail agent on the C, R. I. & P. railroad; Hattie M., born January 1, 1859; W. Burr, born October 24, 1860; Helen M., born November 26, 1862; and Fred B., born December 24, 1864. In 1875 Mr. Smith moved to Muscatine, where he remained five years, to give his children an education. The two girls are now engaged in teaching. Mr. Smith has held several township offices, and is a member of the A. O. U. W., and also of the Congregational Church.

As printed in History of Johnson County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882. Together with biographical sketches .. (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.