Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Smith  , Frank R.  May 29, 1851 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The great West of the United States, which has gathered brain and brawn

from every other section of our common country and many foreign climes, numbers

among its valued contributions at Grand Junction, this state, Dr. Frank R.

Smith, of what is known as the Middle West, he having been born in Van Buren

county, Iowa, on May 29, 1851.  His parents, Samuel and Margaret E. (Ream)

Smith, were native in Maine and Ohio, respectively, and came to Iowa in early

life.  There they became acquainted and were married, both being Van Buren

county pioneers, and there they passed their lives, dying at Fairfield,

Jefferson county. They were the parents of five sons and five daughters, eight

of whom are living.  The Doctor was the second born and was reared in Van Buren

and Jefferson counties of his native state, receiving there a public-school and

academic education.  When twenty-two years of age he began the study of medicine

at Fairfield under the instruction of Dr. R.J. Moore, coming to this great work

with a mind broadened and sharpened by a judicious preparation secured by

several years teaching in the public schools.  In 1876 he was graduated at the

College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, and at once located at

Pleasant Plain, that state, where he practiced twelve years, then removed to

Fairfield.  In the fall of 1891 he came to Colorado for the benefit of his

health, and after passing one year at Colorado Springs, removed to Grand

Junction in 1892.  Here he regained his health and has since been actively

engaged in a general practice of increasing magnitude and importance, which has

given him a wide acquaintance and popularity in the county and brought him the

patronage and esteem of many of its leading families.  He is a member of the

Mesa County Medical Society and takes an active and serviceable interest in its

proceedings.  In politics he is independent and not an active partisan, although

warmly devoted to the welfare of his state and county.  On July 9, 1884, he was

married to Miss Minnie L. Laird, a native of Henry county, Iowa, and daughter of

Joseph A. Laird, a prominent farmer of that county.  They have one son, Silmon

L. The parents are members of the Congregational church.  The Doctor served

three terms as coroner and during the greater part of twenty years was a member

of the pension board.  

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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