Howard-Carroll-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, George W. 1857 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

GEORGE W. SMITH.

   Conspicuous among the representative business men and public-spirited
citizens of Howard county is the well known gentleman whose name forms the
caption of this article. He has made his influence felt for good in his
community in Liberty township, being a man of sterling worth, whose life has
been closely interwoven with the history of the community in which he resides
and whose efforts have always been for the material advancement of the same, as
well as for the social and moral welfare of his fellow men, and the well
regulated life he has led, thereby gaining the respect and admiration of all his
fellow citizens, entitle him to representation in a biographical work of the
scope intended in the present work.

   George W. Smith was born in Clay township, Howard county, Indiana. April 15.
1857, the son of Henry W. and Permelia (May) Smith. The Smith family came from
Virginia to Kentucky and later to Indiana. Henry Smith came to Howard county in
1840, settling in Clay township, where he died after becoming owner of a large
tract of land there. He was a devoted member of the Christian church.

   George W. Smith, our subject, was reared on the farm and attended the country
schools, but being ambitious and desirous of becoming well educated he later
attended the State University, also took a course in Butler College and later
entered Moore's Hill College, making a brilliant record for scholarship in each.
Deciding to enter the medical profession, he went to Columbus, Ohio, attending
the medical college there, but lacked one year of finishing at this place. After
finishing school he purchased a drug store at Burlington, Carroll county,
Indiana, and later converted this into a general store, conducting the same for
ten years with marked success. He then went into business at Rossville as agent.
While he was there his first wife was called to her rest. After this he
conducted his father's farm until 1898, in which year he bought a stock of goods
at Plevna, where he still maintains a fine and well equipped general store,
which is well patronized by people from that neighborhood and remote localities.
He owns the store building and a modem and nicely furnished residence at this
place, all of which he has made by his own thrift and industry. He carries as
large a stock of goods as one may find in a country store, and his customers do
not only receive full value for their money in purchasing his carefully selected
goods, but they receive the most courteous treatment, which accounts for the
fact that his trade has constantly increased. Mr. Smith is a stockholder in the
Winslow Voting Machine Company of Michigan.

   Mr. Smith has married a second time, his last wife having been known in the
maidenhood as Belle Winslow, who came from Kansas City, Missouri, although she
was born in Indiana. Her father was a well known dentist in Kokomo and her
uncle, Ki Winslow, was at one time clerk of the Howard county court.

   Two children have been born to the subject by his second wife. Their names
are John W. and Raymond. The first named is seven years old in 1908 and he gives
promise of a bright future. The second child died at the age of three years.

   Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Christian church, and the former is an
active member of the Prohibition party. He has a host of friends in Howard
county as a result of his industry, uprightness and pleasing address, and few
men are more highly respected.



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From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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