Linn County IA Archives Biographies.....SMYTH, WILLIAM 
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Author: 1903 Bio of William Smyth 

WILLIAM SMYTH was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, January 3, 1824. He came 
with his parents to America when about fifteen years of age and in 1840 located 
in Linn County, Iowa. Mr. Smyth studied law at Iowa City and in 1848 opened 
a law office in Marion. In 1853 he was appointed judge of the Fourth Judicial 
District, serving until 1857. In 1858 he was chosen by the Seventh General 
Assembly one of three commissioners to revise and edify the laws of the State. 
Their work was accepted by the Legislature and became the Code in 1860. 
Judge Smyth was then appointed on the Commission to Legal Inquiry. In 1861 he 
was one of the commissioners appointed to negotiate the bonds issued by the 
State to provide a war defense fund. In August, 1862, he was commissioned 
colonel of the Thirty-first Iowa Infantry and served in the field until 
December, 1864, when he resigned on account of failing health. In 1868 he was 
elected to Congress and served until his death in 1870.



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