Volusia County FlArchives Biographies.....Smith, Dean T. September 9, 1860 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol II , page 9-1- , 1923
Author: The History of Florida: Past & Present

        SMITH, M. D., DEAN T.,  president of the Volusia County Medical 
Society, has been a prominent surgeon at Daytona for the past eight years, and 
for a number of years was professor of surgery in the University of Michigan.
	Doctor Smith was born at Portland, Michigan, September 9, 1860, son of 
Dr. JOHN E. and AMELIA J. (TYLER) SMITH.  His father was a native of New York, 
was an early settler in Michigan, was a graduate of the Homeopathic School of 
Medicine, and practiced in Michigan for a number of years.  He served as 
captain of the Ninth Michigan Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war until 
discharge on account of ill health.  In 1872 he moved to Webster County, 
Nebraska, and in connection with his professional work conducted a sheep 
ranch.  In 1885 he went South to Decatur, Alabama, later returned to Jackson, 
Michigan, in 1892, and remained there until his death in 1904, at the age of 
seventy-five.  While in Nebraska he served as a member of the Legislature and 
as county commissioner, and he organized the first Sunday School in the 
Republican Valley in that state.  He was a republican in politics, and very 
active in church and Sunday school work with the Baptist denomination.  He was 
a member of the Masonic Order.
	Dr. JOHN E. SMITH had a family of four sons and two daughters.  One 
daughter, now deceased, was the wife of Dr. P. M. GUY, a well-known physician 
at Daytona Beach.
	DEAN T. SMITH attended country schools in Nebraska from the age of 
twelve, and also worked on his father's sheep ranch.  He graduated Bachelor of 
Science from Nebraska State University in 1887, and taught two terms of rural 
school before entering college.  In 1889 he graduated from the Chicago 
Homeopathic Medical College, and for a time was associated with his father in 
practice at Decatur, Alabama, and at Jackson, Michigan.  From 1901 until 1914 
Doctor Smith held the chair of professor of surgery and clinical surgery in the 
University of Michigan Homeopathic College.  In 1914 he resigned and came South 
to Daytona, the University of Michigan bestowing on him the honorary masters 
degree at the time.  Doctor Smith for years has ranked as one of the advanced 
man in the field of surgery.  He pursued special work in surgery in the New 
York Post-Graduate College in 1894, in the John's Hopkins Medical College of 
Baltimore in 1900, also attended clinics in Philadelphia and Mayo Brothers 
Hospital in Minnesota, and in 1903 went abroad and visited hospitals in London, 
Berlin, Heidelberg and Vienna.  He is a member of the American Institute of 
Homeopathy, the Michigan State Homeopathic Society, the Southeastern Michigan 
Homeopathic Society, the Southern Homeopathic Society and among other 
contributions to medical literature he is author of "Before and After Surgical 
Operations," published in 1906.
	Since coming to Florida Doctor Smith has served as chairman of the 
local school board, as chairman of the County Y. M. C. A., and as trustee of 
the Daytona Industrial Institute (a colored institution).  He is a member and 
deacon of the First Baptist Church and teacher of the Young Men's Bible class.  
He belongs to the Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce.
	January 17, 1893, at Jackson, Michigan, Doctor Smith married Miss ELLA 
A. SMITH, daughter of JOHN and Mrs. A. W. SMITH.  They have four daughters, 
STELLA, GRETCHEN, ADELIA and HATTIE.  STELLA is the wife of EVERETT DRAKE, of 
Daytona.


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