Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, William E. 1847 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM E. SMITH.

    William E. Smith, present incumbent of the office of assessor of Ross
township, has been identified with the farming interests of Lake county and at
present owns a farm on section 18. He has lived in this county for over forty
years, so that he is familiar with most of its history subsequent to the real
pioneer epoch. During all this time he has had a busy career, devoted mainly to
agriculture, but has also found time to give to the management of the affairs of
his community, in which he has been esteemed and honored throughout his life.

    Mr. Smith was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1847, on the old
homestead where his father, Amos Smith, was born, and where he followed farming
until his death in young manhood, in 1852. Mr. Smith's mother was Harriet
(Ellis) Smith, who died in 1858, leaving four orphaned children. 

    Mr. Smith has a brother, Cyrus, who is a prominent farmer also in section 18
of Ross township, and whose life history is given on other pages. Mr. W. E.
Smith was reared on the old Pennsylvania homestead to the age of sixteen,
receiving his education in the public schools. He came to Lake county, Indiana,
in 1863, and for a time also attended the public schools here. Farming has been
his principal occupation since arriving at manhood, and his nice farm of fifty
acres is well improved and highly cultivated.

    Mr. Smith is a steadfast Republican, and takes considerable interest in
local politics. He was appointed to the office of assessor, holding it four
years by appointment, and was then elected for one year, and in 1900 was
re-elected for a full term, discharging its duties at the present time and
having given a most painstaking and satisfactory administration for nine years.
For several years he also held the office of township supervisor.

    He was first married in 1870, to Miss Cassie Booth, who had one daughter,
Mabel, now the wife of Frank F. Peterson, a farmer of Ross township. Mrs. Smith
died in 1874, and in 1881 Mr. Smith married Miss Caroline Harper, a native of
Ashtabula county, Ohio. There are no children by this marriage.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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