Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Smith, Noah R. 1874 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

    NOAH R. SMITH, D. D. S., Santa Monica, is a native of Missouri and was born
in the town of Clarksville, Pike County, February 11th, 1874. His father, John
R. Smith, was a farmer by occupation and was born in the same county in 1841,
there grew up and married Catherine, a daughter of Noah Griffith, who came from
Bourbon County, Ky., and pioneered in Missouri. John R. Smith's parents were
Virginians and pioneered in Pike County, Missouri, as early as 1840, bringing
with them considerable property which included a number of slaves. The father
was a typical Southern man, a democrat of the pronounced type and a firm
believer in the divine institution of slavery, the doctrine of the State's
rights and secession. John R. Smith spent his entire life on his farm in Pike
County, and there raised a family of four children. While on a visit to Dr.
Smith at Santa Monica he died, in 1901, and his remains were taken to
Clarksville and laid beside his wife in the old family plot of the Clarksville
Cemetery. Dr. Smith is the third child of his parents. He attended the public
schools of Clarksville, and later graduated from La Grange College, La Grange,
Lewis County, Mo., in the class of 1891. He then attended the Western Dental
College, Kansas City, Mo., graduating therefrom in 1896. He commenced practicing
his profession at New Franklin, Howard County, Mo., and remained there about
five years. At New Franklin he met and married Miss Roberta M., a daughter of H.
M. and May (Hanson) Todd, now of Ocean Park, California.

    By reason of failing health a change of climate was necessitated and they
came to California, locating at Santa Monica in 1901. Mrs. Todd's mother, the
grandmother of Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Sarah L. Hanson, is a resident of Beverly Hills.
She is a charming and sweet-spirited woman of eighty-two years and is a native
of Virginia. Her father was Colonel Peter Pierce who, during the period
antedating the Civil War, was a foremost property owner and slave holder of
Virginia. His ancestors and all the interests of the family were intimately
associated with the history of that state.

    Dr. Smith has become a fixture, both as a successful dentist and an esteemed
citizen of Santa Monica. He and Mrs. Smith are members of the Baptist Church.
They have four children—Nelson R., John Robert, Roberta Elizabeth and J. Fred.
The family home is No. 1417 Yale Street.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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