Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Smith, Daniel F. 
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 DANIEL F. SMITH. Among the quiet, sober, and industrious German citizens of Meeker
county, who have left their beautiful fatherland to seek upon the Western Continent
the freedom from conscription and military despotism denied them in their own
country, there is no more prominent individual than the gentleman here presented,
who is a resident upon section 16, Ellsworth township. He is a native of Germany,
and is the son of Henry and Dora Smith. His parents were also born in that classic
land, although of French ancestry.

   Our subject was reared beneath his native skies, and there received the education
common to the youth of that land, and there, having attained the years of manhood,
September 12,1857, he was united in marriage with Miss Fredericka Sinnerman. In 1862
the young couple left their home amid the hills and valleys of Germany, and crossed
the ocean to seek a newer home in free America. They settled near the town of Nunda,
McHenry county, Ill., where they lived until the fall of 1875, when they came to
Meeker county and settled where they now live, and where Mr. Smith has a fine farm
of 180 acres of excellent land, on sections 15 and 16, and on which he has erected
an excellent residence, commodious barn and neat granary. While a resident of Nunda
he showed his enterprise by subscribing to the institution of the pickling and
preserving works of that place, in which he owned several shares of stock; and since
coming to this county he has ever been foremost in anything that seemed to be for
the benefit of the community.

  Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of eight children— Mary (Mrs. Joseph Barth. who
was married September 12, 1878, the anniversary of her parents’ wedding), William,
Frederick, George, Emma (now Mrs. Ludwig Martens), Clara, Bertie, and Minnie.
William is also married, and follows the trade of moulder in Minneapolis.

  Mr. Smith is a republican, politically, and has held the offices of town
supervisor, and of school director and justice of the peace, and is a representative
man. He and his family belong to the Lutheran Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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