Carroll-Starke-Marion County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, George M. 1873 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

GEORGE M. SMITH.

   For more than a decade George M. Smith has been identified with the legal
profession of Carroll county, Indiana, and during the past four years has been a
member of the Delphi bar, being at the present time the secretary of The
Abstract Company, the leading title firm of Delphi and Carroll county. Not only
is he one of the able and successful lawyers of Carroll county, but he is
likewise one of its prominent citizens. As a citizen he is public-spirited and
enterprising; as a friend and neighbor he combines the qualities of head and
heart which have won for him the confidence and esteem of the people of this
county. His success as a lawyer is only the result of using the talents with
which he has been endowed, of directing his energies along well-defined paths,
of fair dealing with the public.

   George M. Smith is a native of Starke county, Indiana, born near Round Lake,
May 16, 1873, his parents having been natives of the Buckeye and the Keystone
states, respectively. His father, Truman M. Smith, was born in Darke county,
Ohio, and his mother, who, before her marriage, was Almira Justice, was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Truman M. Smith was a farmer by occupation, who
emigrated to Indiana in 1838, and lived in Whitley county until 1854, when he
removed to Starke county. He was a soldier in the Civil War and served
throughout the war as a private in the One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment,
Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After the close of the war he resumed farming in
Starke county, and in 1892 retired from the active work of the farm and removed
to Knox, Indiana, where he and his good wife now live. They are the parents of
six children, of whom Edward J., the eldest, is deceased; Hattie M., the wife of
Howard Lee, lives in Bisbee, Arizona; George M., the immediate subject of this
review; Frances M. is the wife of Elmer E. Rogers, the editor of the Warren
County Republican, of Williamsport, Indiana; Oscar B., an attorney of Knox,
Indiana; Ora D., a rural mail carrier out of North Judson, Indiana.

   Born on a farm near Round Lake, Indiana, George M. Smith lived at home on the
farm until he was twenty-eight years old, having in the meantime received a
liberal education in the public schools of Starke county, at Valparaiso
University, and at Indiana University. He was graduated from Valparaiso
University in 1892, and three years later from Indiana University, receiving
from Indiana the degree of Doctor of Laws. In the meantime he had taught school
for eight years in Starke and adjoining counties. The year after his graduation
from Indiana University he was admitted to the bar at Knox, Indiana, and after
practicing at the latter place for two years, removed to Indianapolis, where he
was in the active practice of law for eight years. In 1904 Mr. Smith removed to
Flora, Carroll county, Indiana, where he practiced until the spring of 1911,
when he removed to Delphi, and here he has since been engaged in the active
practice of his profession, being especially prominent as expert in titles and
abstracts.

   On June 9, 1896, George M. Smith was married to Sophia A. Sheibal, of Bass
Lake, Starke county, Indiana, and to this union there have been born three
children: Dean, who is sixteen years old, is a senior in the Delphi school and a
member of the Delphi band; Ethel M., aged fourteen, is a junior in the high
school, and Catherine Almira, the youngest of the family, aged six years.
Mr. Smith has always been more or less prominent in politics, and is identified
with the Republican party. While a resident of Flora he served as a member of
the school board. Fraternally, he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons,
and has risen to the rank of Royal Arch Mason at Delphi. He is also a member of
the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Smith and family are members of the Methodist
church, in which they are actively interested.

   Mr. Smith lives in a picturesque home on the edge of the city of Delphi,
where he entertains his many friends in a hospitable manner, he and his
estimable wife being prominent in the social life of Delphi and Carroll county.


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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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