W.T. SMITH
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 612

W.T. Smith, variously identified with business interests in 
Arizona, now occupies a creditable place in financial and 
business circles.  He is a western man by birth, training 
and preference, having been born in California in 1853, his 
father being W.A. Smith, a native of Tennessee who removed 
from that state to Illinois and in 1850 became a resident 
of California where he remained to the time of his death.

W.T. Smith was reared in the state of his nativity and 
learned much concerning the pioneer conditions there for 
during the period of his youth the state was still in the 
throes of mining excitement. He was twenty one years of 
age when in 1874 he left the coast and came to Arizona 
where for two years he was employed by King Woolsey. In 
the intervening years to the present time, covering more 
than four decades he has borne active and helpful part 
in the work of general improvement and development by 
promoting his individual interests. He has realized the 
needs of the territory and has sought to meet them and 
his efforts have been a factor in the development of the 
natural resources of the state and the expansion of its 
trade relations. Mr. Smith has at various times been 
connected with mining and merchandising and has also 
owned and conducted extensive ranch interests.  His 
interests at this time are varied and extensive and 
include some valuable mining property, large ranch 
holdings and Phoenix city realty.


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