Christian County KyArchives Biographies.....Smith, Jesse W.I. August 18, 1832 - unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 April 21, 2005, 5:32 pm Author: History of Christian, Kentucky, Historical and Biographical, Edited by William Henry Perrin, F. A. Batey Publishing Co JESSE W. I. SMITH's father, Samuel C. Smith, a seaman, as of English descent, born in New Jersey on the 18th of August, 1806, and died near Goshen, Ohio, from sunstroke in August, 1877. In New Jersey he married Miss Louisa Bronaugh, of German ancestry, born February 20, 1807, and died in November, 1866. They were the parents of the following children: Dr. John C., a resident of Kansas; Maggie, who married Charles Armstrong, of Plainville, Ohio, and died in 1872; Lottie, who married W. H. Ross, now of Dakota; Emma L., wife of Whitfield Armstrong, of Ohio; Clara, wife of Samuel F. Emery of Minneapolis, Kas., and Jesse, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Jersey City, N. J., August 18, 1832. When he was nine years of age, he was brought to Goshen, Ohio, by his parents, and was there reared on a farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he entered the Delaware College and remained there for two years; after which he engaged as a traveling salesman and continued the same for three years. He then moved to Indiana, and located in Union County, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and continued the same until 1861, when he entered the Federal Army as Capt. of Co. G., of the 36th Ind. Vol. Infantry; was afterward promoted to Major of the regiment, and served until he was mustered out in September, 1864. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Morrison Ridge, Chickamauga, Atlanta campaign, Stone River, and at Jonesboro, and was with Hooker on the top of Lookout Mountain. He was wounded at Stone River and Chickamauga. After the war he located at Connorsville, In., in the employ of the Cincinnati & Indiana R. R. In 1872 he went to Clinton, Ill.; in 1873 to Springfield, Ill.; in 1976 to Hopkins County, Ky., and in 1880 to Hopkinsville, Ky., where he is at present located in the position of Agent for the Louisville & Nashville R. R. In November, 1854, he married Miss Rosa, daughter of John A. and Rosanna (Manuel) Smith. Mrs. Smith as born in Dayton, Ohio, November 3, 1836, and is the mother of the following children: Alfred C., Charles G., Annie F., Ida L., Harry C. And Jessie L. R. Mr. Smith and wife, with his five eldest children, united with the M. E. Church, and he is a member of the order of A.F.&A.M. His eldest son is the operator at Hopkinsville and his second son is the Western Union Telegraph office at Chicago as chief operator. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/christian/bios/smith37nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/kyfiles/