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Born 1877
From Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio (1905)
WALTER J. SMITH, M. D.
The subject of this review is a native of.Butler county and is one of the able young representatives of the medical profession in the village of Reily. He was born in Reily township, on the 27th of March. 1877. and is a son of Joseph B. and Jane (Brown) Smith, who are the parents of three children, of whom the Doctor was the second in order of birth. His sister. Emma, is the wife of.Newton Samuels, of Peoria, Indiana, and his sister, Olive, is at home.
Dr. Smith was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and his early educational advantages were such as were afforded in the district schools, while later he continued his studies for one year in Miami University. In 1897 he initiated the technical study of medicine, having as preceptor his uncle. Dr. Harry H. Smith, with whom he is now associated in practice and to whom individual reference is made on another page of this work. In the spring of 1898 the subject was matriculated in the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, where he completed the prescribed course, being graduated in the spring of 1902 and securing his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He forthwith located in Reily and associated himself with his uncle and here he has already gained prestige as a thoroughly skilled and discriminating physician and surgeon, his ability and his personality being such as to gain to him a strong hold on popular confidence and esteem in the community where he has passed practically his entire life. The Doctor is a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity *of the Ohio Medical College and is also identified with St. Charles Lodge, No. 332, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Reily, while he is also identified with the auxiliary organization, the Daughters of Rebekah. In politics he gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, in whose cause he takes a lively interest, and he is a member of the Presbyterian church at Reily.
As printed in Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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