Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Iroquois Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   G.B. SMITH, M.D., a native of Hancock County, Indiana, was born
April 12, 1842, and is the eldest of the six children of Josiah and 
Hannah (Braddock) Smith, the former a native of West Virginia, the 
latter of Pennsylvania, and of Welsh and English descent, who located
in this township in 1852.  Mr. Smith was a farmer and carpenter.
   G.B. Smith was reared in Newton County, and in 1861, enlisted in 
Company B, Fifty-first Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry; he was a 
corporal and took part at Shiloh, Stone River, the siege of Corinth,
the raid of Gen. Streight, and was wounded at the battle of Crooked 
Creek, April 30, 1863.
   On April 16, 1872, at Remington, he married Miss S. J., daughter of 
David Chambers, of Montgomery County, Indiana, where Mrs. S. J. Smith
was born.  To this union has been bestowed one child--Mary E.  Dr.
Smith is now a practitioner of medicine and surgery at Foresman Station,
where he has erected a fine residence; he also practiced at Brook, and 
formerly at Chili, Miami County.  He is a graduate of 1872 from the 
Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis.


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