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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM C. SMITH.

    William C. Smith, superintendent of the city schools of East Chicago, has
been engaged in educational work during most of his active career, and is a man
of exceptional fitness for his calling and of recognized ability in both the
instructional and administrative fields of his profession. During the past three
years he has done excellent work in raising the standard and creating an
educational efficiency in the school system of East Chicago, and is held in high
esteem among all the patrons of the public schools.

    Mr. Smith was born in New York city, February 2, 1869, a son of John G. and
Sarah E. (Chandler) Smith, both natives of Massachusetts. He is of one of the
oldest American families, dating back for seven generations. His paternal
grandfather, John G. Smith, was shoemaker of Beverly, Massachusetts, where he
died at the age of sixty-five. His wife was Hannah Cross, and they had a large
family. The maternal grandfather of Superintendent Smith was Holbrook Chandler,
a native of Massachusetts and also of an old American family. He was custodian
of-buildings of the Phillips Acadamy at Andover. He attained the advanced age of
eighty-seven years. By his wife Frances Kimball he had a good-sized family. John
G. Smith, the father of William C, was a traveling salesman for thirty-five
years. In 1879 he left New York and located at St. Louis, Missouri, where he
made his home till his death, in 1896, at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife
is still living. They both had membership in the Second Baptist church of St.
Louis. He had been a soldier during the Civil war, serving in the Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts Infantry, of the Ninth Army Corps. He was wounded at the battle of
Antietam, and was at the siege of Knoxville and in many battles under Sherman.
He served as a private for two and a half years. He and his wife were parents of
four children: Everett H., of St. Louis; William C.; Miss Mattie, of Godfrey,
Illinois; and Hannah, of Lincoln, Illinois.

    Mr. William C. Smith received his first schooling in Jersey City, and after
the family moved to St. Louis he attended the public schools of that city, and
later was a student in the manual training school of Washington University, in
St. Louis. After school days were over he was employed in various ways in St.
Louis until 1887, when he began his career as teacher, having charge of district
schools for three years. He then became assistant principal at Albion, Illinois.
In 1901 he came to East Chicago to assume the position of superintendent of the
city schools, and has served in that capacity ever since.

    Superintendent Smith is a member of the Second Baptist church of East
Chicago, while his wife is an Episcopalian. Politically he is a Republican. He
resides at 4136 Magoun avenue, where he built his good home in 1902. On
September 2, 1891, Mr. Smith married Miss Mary Bowman, a daughter of Kemp and
Sarah (Tribe) Bowman. They have one daughter, Sarah Frances.


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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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