Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Smith, Charles 1835 - 
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     CHARLES SMITH. Among the influential citizens of Cosmos township, is the
gentleman whose name heads this article. He has been prominently identified with the
growth and development of Minnesota since 1855, although he did not come to Meeker
county until 1879. He is the son of Alexander and Henrietta (Sutphin) Smith, and was
born in Upper Stillwater, Maine, on the 19th of July, 1835. When he was only two
years of age his parents removed to the State of New York, and settled at
Plattsburgh, Clinton county, where they remained until taken from this world by
death.

   The subject of this memoir resided beneath the parental roof until attaining his
nineteenth year, when he came to Minnesota, coming from Chicago with a team. In that
year, 1851, there was but one building in either St. Anthony or Minneapolis, except
the public edifices. He remained in St. Paul some six months, and then returned to
New York, but in the following fall returned to this State. He made his home in
Minneapolis until the year 1860, when he removed to Aitkin county, where he engaged
in lumbering. He was a resident of that county when it was organized, and was
appointed by Governor Pillsbury as one of the organizing commissioners, and filled
that office by election for some thirteen years.

   In the spring of 1861, when traitorous hands essayed to rend the Union in twain,
Mr. Smith enlisted in Company D, First Minnesota, and with that noble regiment,
whose name brings up so many gallant deeds, participated in the first battle of Bull
Run, July 21, 1861. He was there wounded by a ball in the right shoulder, and was
laid up for some seven months, but on recovery re-enlisted in his old regiment, and
stood with them in the awful flood of fire, that so nearly annihilated them, at
Antietam, and in the battle of Mill Spring.

   After his discharge Mr. Smith came back to Minnesota, and in 1879 removed to this
county and purchased a farm on section 22, where he now lives, in Cosmos township.
Of his fine place of 200 acres, some 125 are under cultivation.


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


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