Thomas Leander Smith

As printed in 1905

THOMAS LEANDER SMITH.

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Thomas Leander Smith was the second son in a family of five sons and seven daughters, and was reared upon the old hoiue farm amid pioneer surroundings and environments. In 1861 he enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Woluntecr Infantry, and was with his company at Fort.Madison and Davenport; but after two months he was rejected, his teeth not being sufficiently strong to bite oflf the cartridge. He remained on the home farm until twenty-five years of age, when he started out in life on his own account. He had ackiuired a good education in the public schools, and followed teaching for about fifteen years. He then began farming by renting land, and was thus engaged until 1886. when he began teaming at I'.burlington, Iowa, at which he continued for two years. He also become the owner of two houses and lots in Turlington, which he afterward sold, and )purchased his present farm of eight and one-half acres, one-half mile north of Doddsville, taking up his above in the residence U])on this jdace in 1889. In 1902 he bought thirty acres of land on Section 18, Franklin township, of which twenty-five acres was timber land. The greater part of his life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits, and his

As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.