Carroll-Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, Addison E. 1864 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ADDISON E. SMITH.

   The opinion is current among those who are given to superficial thinking that
the history of great men only is worthy of preservation and that little merit
exists among the masses of mankind to call forth the praises of the historian or
the appreciation of their fellows. A greater mistake was never made. No man is
great in all things and few are great in many things. Among the well-known
citizens of Carrollton township, Carroll county, Indiana, who have lived quiet
and unassuming lives but, who, nevertheless, have accomplished things of real
merit, is Addison E. Smith, a well-known farmer who lives on rural route No. 2,
out of Flora, Indiana.

   Mr. Smith was born in Howard county, Indiana, December 11, 1864, and is the
son of W. W. and Sarah E. (Spraker) Smith. The former was born on August 11,
1841, and was the son of Henry W. and Permelia (Garr) Smith. Henry W. Smith was
born in Virginia but immigrated to Kentucky when twenty-one years old. His
father died about the time he was twelve years old. Permelia (Garr) Smith was a
native of Kentucky, whose parents had come from Virginia. After rearing a family
of twelve children, the parents died in Kentucky. Some fourteen years after the
marriage of Henry W. Smith and Permelia Garr, they immigrated to Howard county,
Indiana, and lived in that county until their deaths. W. W. Smith was about
twelve years old when he accompanied his parents from Kentucky to Howard county,
Indiana. He was educated in the public schools and, after he had become a young
man, he married Sarah E. Spraker, and subsequently came to own a large farm in
Howard county, Indiana. Both he and his wife were active members of the
Methodist Episcopal church and prominent citizens in the county. W. W. Smith was
active in local politics. Early m life; he had been identified with the Democrat
party and later became a Prohibitionist. Six children were born to W. W. and
Sarah E. (Spraker) Smith,-namely: Addison E., the subject of this sketch; Amelia
M., the wife of Otto Greeson, of Kokomo, Indiana; Charles N., a farmer of
Montana; Omer J., a farmer of Wells county, Indiana; Alma E., the wife of Clem
Hott, of Tipton county, Indiana, and Harry D., a civil engineer at Mt. Pleasant,
Tennessee.

  Reared on a farm in Howard county, Indiana, Addison E. Smith received a
common-school education in the schools of that county, and, subsequently,
attended Franklin College, where he took a course preparatory to teaching. He
taught for one year in the schools of Howard county and then in the schools of
western Kansas, where he homesteaded a tract of government land and where he
lived for eight years. Afterward he returned to Indiana and located in Howard
county.

   On November 10, 1900, Addison E. Smith was married to Melissa J. Dunkin, the
daughter of Benjamin S. and Sarah (Ratcliff) Dunkin, the former of whom was born
in Union county, Indiana, and the latter in Henry county, Indiana. Mrs. Addison
E. Smith was born on November 24, 1859. Her grandfather, Richard Dunkin, whose
wife was Lydia Wilson, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, January 29, 1795. He
was married in 1818. Afterward they moved from Montgomery county, Ohio, to Union
county, Indiana, in 1824, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in
the woods. On October 4, 1836, they moved to Carroll county, Indiana, where Mr.
Dunkin bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, also in the woods. He was a
man of strictly temperate habits in all things. Early in life he was identified
with the Whig party, but later became a Republican. Benjamin S. and Sarah
(Ratcliff) Dunkin were the parents of nine children, six of whom, Tillie,
Melissa, Winfield. William, Elmer and Rev. Daniel, are now living. Tiliie is the
wife of Rev. E. Sanford, of Florida. Mrs. Addison E. Smith, who was educated in
the district schools, later took a course in music and for a number of years
taught music. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one child, Nellie M., who was born on July
8, 1904.

   Mrs. Smith and Nellie are members of the Baptist church. Like his father
before him, Addison E. Smith is identified with the Prohibition party. Mr. and
Mrs. Addison E. Smith own the farm on which Mr. Smith was born and reared. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith make a specialty of purebred Rhode Island Red and Leghorn
chickens. They are warmly devoted to life on the farm, to the beautiful,
wholesome and inspiring influences of the countryside, and are well known and
highly respected citizens of Carrollton township.


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Biographical Section of
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


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