Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Harmon 1904
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Unidentified Publication, 1904
After an illness of about four weeks, at his home in Orleans, Ionia county, Harmon Smith departed this life, aged 75 years.  The funeral was held Thursday and the remains taken to Ionia for burial.

Mr. Smith was one of the early settlers in Stanton, where he engaged in the
practice of the law for many years, and was at one time prosecuting attorney of
the county.  His office building was burned in the Main street fire of 1880, and
the following year he erected a brick building on his lot, the same building
being now occupied by the postoffice.

He moved from Stanton to Ionia some twenty years ago.  Later, he purchased a
small farm in Orleans township and engaged extensively in bee culture.  He was
an uncle of Mrs. Lena Rowley, of this city, and W.T. Smith, of Ionia.

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Harmon Smith of Orleans township, several times a resident of Ionia city, died
at his home, on Tuesday afternoon.  He was 72 years of age, and his lifetime was
in more than one respect of unique and vigorous character.  He came out of the
army with the record of a good soldier, and in the years that followed, was
fully as dashing a printer or politician.  He was the first lawyer to open an
office at Stanton and held the offices of circuit court commissioner and
prosecuting attorney of Montcalm county; in 1860 he was elected circuit court
commissioner of Barry county.  In public and private life, Mr. Smith’s ruling
desire was to do what was right.

[Transcriber Note:  This is two separate articles; the ages are typed as they
appear in the articles.]


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