Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, John Andrew December 17, 1819 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Jackson Township
p. 596 & 597

John Andrew Smith was born in Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio, Dec. 17, 1819. His 
father, John G. Smith, was a native of Germany, and was born in a village near 
the city of Gotha, July 14, 1782, and came to America about the year 1806, 
arriving at New York City where he remained about eight years, during which 
time he was engaged in carriage-making. About the year 1814 he emigrated to 
Ohio and settled in the Southern part of the State, at French Grant, where he 
remained a short time, and removed to Chillicothe about the beginning of the 
year 1815, where he was married about the year 1818, to Susannah Wools. It is 
probable that her native State was Pennsylvania, and moved to Montgomery 
County, Ky., in an early day. She was born July 4, 1774, and died Dec. 7, 
1824, in Chillicothe. Ohio, when the subject of this sketch was nearly five 
years old. John G. Smith, remained in Chillicothe, Ohio, until the fall of 
1844, when he came to Cambridge City, Ind., to live in the home of his only 
son, John Andrew, and there died July 9, 1862. Our subject, J. A. Smith, spent 
his boyhood days in Chillicothe, and in the country near there, and was 
educated at the pay and public schools of the town and the country schools in 
the western part of the county, and when about fourteen years of age he came 
to Cambridge City, Ind., and accepted the situation as clerk in the store of 
Ira and Sanford Lackey, the town having been just laid out east of the river 
by Ira Lackey and William Conwell. Entering the store in the spring of 1834, 
he held the position of clerk with the firm, and with Sanford Lackey seven 
years. Arriving at the age of twenty-one years, he entered the high school of 
Cambridge, which was under the direction of Prof. Samuel K. Hoshour, and 
continued there a year or more, after which he taught one term of school in 
Henry County, Ind., and was afterward variously engaged as clerk and 
bookkeeper in the stores of the town. June 27, 1844, Mr. Smith was united in 
marriage to Hannah, daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Johnsonbaugh, who then 
were living in East Germantown, Ind., by whom he had four children, two of 
which died in early infancy. His wife died Nov. 26, 1866, at the age of forty 
years, four months and seventeen days. His son, Franklin Fremont Smith, was 
born June 28, 1855, in Cambridge City, Ind.; was educated at the public 
schools in the town, until his eighteenth year, when he went to Oberlin, Ohio, 
at which place he served as an apprentice and journeyman, in the clock, watch 
and jewelry store of Charles H. Tuttle, for seven years. In September, 1880, 
he was invited by Messrs. Shourds & Story, extensive jewelry dealers in 
Chicago, Ill., to the position of salesman in their store. After serving them 
a little more than two years, he died in that city, Nov. 27, 1882. His 
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born in Cambridge City, Ind., April 25, 1847. 
She received the advantages of a liberal education, and thorough education in 
music by some of the best teachers, and devotes most of her time in giving 
instruction on the piano. May 29, 1878, she was married to Garrison P. Austin, 
who was a resident and engaged in business in Cambridge City, and there died 
April 3, 1881. They had one daughter---Catharine Rose Austin, who was born 
March 8, 1880. Mrs. Austin, with her daughter and step-daughter, Amy R. 
Austin, makes her home with Mr. Smith, at the old home residence on Church 
street, which he built in 1844. From the spring of 1854 to March, 1861, Mr. 
Smith served as general clerk and bookkeeper in the store of Morrison & Newby, 
who did an extensive business in groceries, leather, grain, etc., and in 
shipping of produce, etc., on the W. W.V. Canal to Cincinnati. In March, 1861, 
he was appointed Postmaster at Cambridge City, Ind., and served until June 30, 
1867. He was appointed, in the spring of 1861, Collector of Tolls on the 
Whitewater Valley Canal, and served about two years. In July, 1867, he was 
employed as bookkeeper by Callaway, Callahan & Newby, manufacturers of linseed 
oil, flour, etc., they having leased and fitted up Benj. Conklin's mill for 
that purpose. He remained with the firm seven years. In May, 1875, Mr. Smith 
was elected Clerk of the corporation of Cambridge City, Ind. He has held the 
office by re-election for the past nine years, and his home has been in 
Cambridge City for nearly fifty years. 

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