Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Smith, T T 1846 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

T. T. Smith & CO., hardware merchants, Braceville. Mr. T. T. Smith of the 
above firm, was born September 8, 1846, in Michigan, is a son of T. and Esther 
A. (Bashford) Smith, natives of New York, and the parents of five children - 
Oliver N., Harriet A., T. T. and two deceased when young. Our subject obtained 
a fair education, and spent his younger days on a farm. In 1864, he enlisted 
in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Illinois Infantry, and remained 
until the war closed. On his return from the war, he engaged in the grocery 
business, together with dry goods, at Braidwood, with L. H. Goodrich. After 
severing his connection with Goodrich, he engaged with C. W. & V., at same 
village for two years; afterward he managed a farm for Homes & Cody for two 
years, and then was with J. L. Swanburg in the hardware business, which he 
bought April 4, 1882, and has since continued the same at Braceville, having 
at this time a full line of hardware, etc. He has a fine business room with a 
good hall above, which is used for general meetings. Was married, in 1870, to 
Jennie Bennett, of Wilmington. She lived but a short time, and he was again 
married, in 1874, to Lucy Leatherman, the result being Roy L., Zula M. and 
Oliver T. He is now President of the Village Board, and is Trustee of the 
Methodist Church; is a member of the A. O. U. W., and is a Master of the same; 
is a member of the Braidwood Lodge, A., F. & A. M.; votes the Republican 
ticket.



Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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