BIO:  SMITH, Harrison H., s/o Onias & Mary (Wyett) Smith

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

SMITH   WYETT   BOWMAN

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885

Pike County, Madison Twp, p. 447

HARRISON H. SMITH is a son of Onias and Mary (Wyett) Smith, and was born
August 23, 1838, in Pike County, Ind.  The father was a native of North
Carolina, born in 1805.  In 1810 he came with his parents to Pike County,
Ind., and his father entered a large tract of land near Petersburg.  He was
a surveyor by occupatin and worked at that business in North Carolina and
also after coming to Indiana.  He laid out the town of Petersburg and also
surveyed numerous tracts throughout Pike and the adjoining counties.  Our
subject's father, Onias married in Pike County, and afterward bought property
near Petersburg, where he located and remained as a tiller of the soil until
his death, which occurred in September, 1869.  The mother was born in
Kentucky and came to Indiana with her parents when a small child.  She is yet
living and is over seventy-five years of age.  Harrison H. made his home
with his parents until he was twenty-six years old.  September, 1864, he
married Nancy Jane Bowman, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Bowman.  She
was born November 14, 1845, in Illinois.  They have four chidlren living,
named Rollin P., Cordelia, Onias and Emmet.  Mr. Smith farmed on a rented
place for over a year and then bought fifty-nine acres near Petersburg,
where he lived for about four years and then sold out and purchased 100
acres in Madison Township.  He has added ninety-three acres to this, and has
one of the best farms in Pike County.  He is a Democrat in politics, and cast
his first vote for Stephen A. Douglas.
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