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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

ALBERT H. SMITH, who owns and occupies a thirty five-acre farm in the suburbs 

of Crete, was born October 12, 1845, in the town of Bloom, Cook County, just 

across the line from Crete Township.  His father, John C. Smith, a native of 

Connecticut, accompanied his parents to Illinois in 1835 and settled in this 

county, of which the family were pioneers.  Several years later he entered a 

claim to government land in Bloom Township and began the raising of stock and 

general farm products.  In an early day he served as township collector. 

Although he was only thirty-eight at the time of his death he had accumulated 

five hundred acres. His father, Timothy Smith, was born and reared on Long 

Island, where he engaged in tailoring, but after coming west he gave his 

attention to farming and stock-raising.  He took part in the wars with the 

Indians.  Fraternally he was a thirty-second degree mason, and in religion a 

member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died in this county, when eighty-

nine years of age.  The mother of our subject was a daughter of John C. Wilson, 

who was born in England and settled in Bloom Township in an early day, becoming 

owner of what was later known as Columbia Heights.  Mrs. Smith died when twenty-

eight years of age, leaving three children.  The older son, Wesley, died in 

1865, when twenty-three years old, and the only daughter, Louise J., is the 

wife of J. R.  Morris, of Bloom Township.  When our subject was three years old 

his mother died, and three years later his father passed away, leaving him an 

orphan.  He was taken into the home of his grandfather, Smith, with whom he 

remained until he was sixteen.  Afterward he lived with an uncle on a farm and 

worked out by the month.  When he married he bought eighty acres of his 

grandfather's land in Bloom Township and made his home there for some time, but 

finally removed to his present farm adjoining the limits of Crete.  He still 

owns one hundred and eighty-eight acres in Bloom Township, which, with the 

exception of five years when the land was rented, he has since conducted.

November 25, 1869, Mr. Smith married Marian, daughter of Squire Willard Wood, 

founder of Crete, whose sketch is given on another page.  They are the parents 

of five children, namely: Anna L.; Willard J., who is engaged in the grocery 

business at Chicago Heights; Florence, wife of Charles A. Noble, recorder of 

Will County and a resident of Joliet;  Wesley A. and Clark C, who are with 

their parents.  Mrs. Smith is identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

in which faith the children were reared.  Mr. Smith is an active worker in the 

Republican party.  He is the only native of America holding office in Crete 

Township.   He has the position of highway commissioner, in which he is serving 

his third term.  Besides his general farm work he has given considerable time 

to the stock business, and has met with good results in the breeding of 

Clydesdale horses and Jersey cattle.

Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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