Tuscola-Bay County MI Archives Biographies.....Smith, John D. 1848 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN D. SMITH, a prominent farmer, who is also proprietor of the Quanicassee
House, of Windsor Township, Tuscola County, is a son of John and Margaret (Dail)
Smith, natives of County Argenteuil, Canada, where the subject of this sketch
was also born, July 17, 1848. He was reared upon a farm and resided with his
father until he reached the age of eighteen, when he came to the United States
and located at Bay City, and there resided until March, 1890. For seventeen
years he has been an hotel proprietor in Bay City and West Bay City, and his
farm in Windsor Township consists of three hundred acres of excellent land in a
highly cultivated and productive region.

  Mr. Smith was happily married February 22, 1875, to Mrs. Christiana Taitt, a
daughter of Robert McCargo, a Scotchman. She was born in Canada about the year
1857, and is now the happy mother of two sons—Roy, who was born April 20, 1876,
and Guy, January 28, 1883, both sons being still at home with their parents.

  When Mr. Smith landed at Bay City he did not possess a dollar, but by industry
and strict application to business he has secured a competency. One peculiarity
of this business man is worthy of note, in that although he is now forty-three
years old and has sold whisky for eighteen years, he has never taken a drink of
beer or whisky. In politics he is a Republican, and is a member of Wenona Lodge,
No. 221, I. O. O. F., of West Bay City.

  There were thirteen children in the family of John Smith, Sr., seven sons and
six daughters, and eight of them are still living, as is also the mother, who
has reached the age of seventy-two years. Our subject's ancestors on the
father's side came to America many years ago and settled in Massachusetts. The
wife of our subject previous to their marriage was the widow of Daniel Taitt,
and by that union had three sons and two daughters, namely: John, Josephine,
Catherine, James and Daniel. The older children and James make their home in Bay
City; Catherine lives with her mother and Daniel also resides in this township.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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