Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, James C. 1828 - 1905
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JAMES C. SMITH.

   James C. Smith was born near Zanesville, Ohio, March 3, 1828. He came to
Burlington, this county, in 1832, and was a merchant. At that time Indians were
plentiful, their reservations being on the east side of the county line.

   On June 5, 1846, Mr. Smith enlisted as a soldier of the Mexican War and was a
member of the Company C, First Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After
serving during the war, he was mustered out at New Orleans, June 20, 1847. In
the Civil War he enlisted on November 29, 1862, in the Twenty-fourth Indiana
Artillery. He was made a prisoner of war, July 31, 1864; at Macon, Georgia. He
was exchanged on March 1, 1865. His battery was mustered out at Indianapolis,
August 3, 1865. He died in 1905.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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