Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Smith, John September 7, 1833 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers, Chicago

John Smith, farmer, section 12, Evart Township, was born Sept. 7, 1833, in 
York, Washtenaw Co., Mich.  His parents, 

Harmon and Eliza (Davenport) Smith, are natives of the State of New York.  the 
removed in 1847 to Ronald Township, Ionia 

County.  His mother descended from the Davenport brothers, - John, Isaac and 
Morris, - whose posterity has kept intact 

the lineage record from their emigration to this country in the Colonial 
period, and who were Quakers in religious 

sentiment.  She was born July 19, 1812, either in Dutchess or Orange Co., 
N.Y.  The father was born Sept. 27, 1805, in 

Lima, Livingston Co., N.Y.

Mr. Smith went to Iowa when 23, and after passing a year in the Buckeye State 
returned to Ionia.  He came to the 

township of Evart Feb. 11, 1867, at a period when the natural condition of the 
county afforded ample scope for the 

indulgence of his tastes and proclivities for hunting and trapping, which he 
turned to profit, and which he has pursued 

more or less ever since for sport when no necessity urged.  He settled on 80 
acres of land, where he has since resided.

He was married, in Orient Township, Dec. 12, 1865, to Mary Ann Tennant.  she 
was born Dec. 29, 1845, in Macomb Co., 

Mich., and is the daughter of William and Betsey (Burdick) Tennant, of Orient 
Township (see sketch).  Mr. and Mrs. Smith 

have had six children:  Harmon, born Dec. 17, 1867; Rhoda, Oct. 7, 1871; Alva, 
March 20, 187-.  Ida born Sept. 11m 1869, 

died Oct 26, 1879; Alva, born April 12, 1876, deied Nov. 13, 1879; Ethan, born 
Dec. 7, 1873, died Nov. 1, 1879.  These 

children died within three weeks, of diptheria.  Their mother joined her 
little ones gone before to the land of the 

silent majority April 1, 1881.

Mr. Smith is a Democrat.  He has been Treasurer three terms, and Highway 
Commissioner and Justice of the Peace one term 

each.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Osceola Co.

Chapman Brothers, Chicago

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