BIO:  SMEDBERG, Charles G., Campbell Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: SMEDBERG, Charles G., Campbell Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Kenton Co.

CHARLES G. SMEDBERG was born in New York in June, 1853, and is a son of
John G. and Jane (Adams) Smedberg, the former a farmer, and both natives
of New York.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was a native of
Sweden, and a tanner by trade.  He married a Miss Renwick, of America.
Charles G. Smedberg was educated at Sing Sing Military School, where he
graduated in 1871, and then went to Raymond City, W. Va., where he engaged
in the coal business for seven years.  From the latter place he went to
Black Hills, Dak., and engaged in gold mining one year, when he returned
to Newport, Ky., remained there one year, and then removed to Covington,
where he again engaged in the coal business.  In 1884 he married Indiana
C. Bright, of Covington.  Mr. Smedberg is a member of the Baptist Church,
and in politics is a Democrat.

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