Biography of E T Smith, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 171

E. T. Smith is the junior member of the firm of Smith & Son, proprietors of a lumber
mill on Bark Camp Island, Greene County, Ark. The business was established in August,
1878, and is managed by a force of thirty-five men, the capacity being 25,000 feet
per day. Mr. Smith was born on Blue Grass soil, in 1851 (Hopkins County, Ky.), and
was the youngest of a family of five children of W. E. and Sarah (Hicklin) Smith, who
were also Kentuckians. The father removed to Greene County, Ark., in 1885, and now
resides in Paragould, being senior member of the lumber milling firm. E. T. Smith's
early days were spent in following the plow and in attending the common schools of
Kentucky. He was married in Hickman County, of that State, in 1880, to Ella Leet, a
native of Kentucky, and by her has an interesting little family of three children:
Dora, Kenner and Charley M. Socially he is a member of the Knights of Honor, and in
his political views affiliates with the Democratic party. He is enterprising and
industrious, and promises to become in time one of the wealthy citizens of the
county.