Linn County IA Archives Biographies.....SMYTH, ROBERT February 26, 1814 - April 3, 1898
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Debbie Clough G-erischer Bare67deb@aol.com and Mari Modlin ddmmjm@netins.net July 27, 2005, 3:33 am

Author: 1903 Bio of Robert Smyth

ROBERT SMYTH, one of the pioneers of Linn County, was born in Ireland, 
February 26, 1814. He came to America in 1834 and located in Linn County, Iowa, 
in 1840. Here he became an extensive dealer in real estate and afterwards 
engaged in banking. He was a member of the Sixth Territorial Legislature in 
184304 and of the State Legislature in 1846-8. Mr. Smyth was again a member in 
1868, serving four years in the Senate. In 1884 he served in the House of the 
Twentieth General Assembly forty years after he first became an Iowa lawmaker. 
Colonel Smyth was one of the paymasters of the United States army for several 
years, disbursing more than $10,000,000 during his term. He died at Mount 
Vernon April 3, 1898.



Debbie Clough Gerischer
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