Tipton County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, Charles Franklin 1828 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 9, 2007, 10:27 pm

Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   CHARLES FRANKLIN SMITH, merchant, is a native of Kentucky, and was born
September 16, 1828. He is the oldest of three children born to Henry and Susan
(Wilson) Smith, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky, and of German and
Scotch-Irish descent. His maternal grandfather participated in the battle of
Yorktown, where Gen. Cornwallis surrendered. His father, Henry Smith, was a
farmer and mechanic. His death occurred March 18, 1883, at the age of eighty
years. Our subject assisted his father in the workshop at carriage-making,
wheel-wrighting, gate-making, etc., and at the age of twenty-two was appointed
first station agent at Pewee Valley, on the Louisville & Nashville Short Line.
He removed North with his family in the fall of 1857, locating at Windfall, and
here engaged in merchandising and acting as station and express agent. He
subsequently dealt in grain, and built the first warehouse. He continued there
in business until 1865, when he removed to Tipton and entered the Auditor's
office as Deputy, serving four years under Scott Armstrong, now of Kokomo. He
afterward engaged in the drug business, and later sold out and returned to
Windfall. He was employed by J. H. Zehner in his store, where he still
continues, and is highly esteemed as a citizen and business man. Mr. Smith was
married, April 5, 1855, to Susan L. Hudson, of New York. She is the daughter of
Robert and Mary J. (Hamilton) Hudson. Mr. Smith has taken an active part in all
public and benevolent enterprises, and is an active politician in the Democratic
ranks. He and wife are worthy members of the Episcopal Church, and are now
enjoying a most pleasant home, made by their own industry and economy.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/tipton/bios/smith1009gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 2.5 Kb