Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Smith, Josiah F. 1829 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

JOSIAH F. SMITH.

    Notably among the "old-timers" in Southern Colorado is Josiah F. Smith, a
prominent citizen, and the present Police Judge of Pueblo. He was raised in
Dayton, Ohio, where he was born September 2, 1829. He came West in 1848, and for
ten years traded among the Indians through Wyoming, California and Oregon. In
1858, he returned to Missouri, going to St. Louis, where he lived more than two
years. Coming West again in 1860, he located in Southern Colorado, on the
Fontaine qui Bouille, at a point which became a village, known as Fontaine City,
but which is now covered by East Pueblo. Mr. Smith has been prominently
connected with the varied changes and growth of Pueblo from its very infancy. In
1866, he pre-empted a quarter-section of land bordering on Santa Fe avenue,
which he afterward sold in town lots, realizing considerable money therefrom. He
was Sheriff of Pueblo County in 1864-65. He was a Deputy under Gov. Hunt when he
held the office of United States Marshal. He was appointed a Justice of the
Peace in 1859, when Colorado was a part of Kansas Territory, and has since held
that office at various times in Pueblo County. He was elected to the office of
Police Judge in May, 1881. Few men have been more intimately associated with the
history of Southern Colorado, and few have figured more in the shifting scenes
of Western life than Josiah F. Smith. The Judge has not been unmindful of his
individual interest. He has long been interested in the stock business, and by
his various enterprises has grown quite wealthy. Long may he yet live among the
people whose growth he has watched, and whose vicissitudes he has shared for
over twenty years.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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