Biographical Sketch of Alexander Smiley, Center Township, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Alexander Smiley, farmer and stock raiser, section 26, post office
Willow Brook, was born June 20, 1816, in Belmont County, Ohio, and is
of Scottish-Irish nationality.  His parents were natives of Pennsyl-
vania and moved to Ohio, about the year 1800 and were among the early
settlers there.  Alexander was reared at his birth place and received 
a common school education.  His father was a carpenter by trade and
Alex, worked at the same trade while he remained in Ohio.  He came 
West in the spring of 1852, by water from Wheeling to St. Louis, thence
up the river to St. Joseph, arriving on the 9th of April.  He settled
where he now resides and since that time has given his attention to
agricultural pursuits.  He owns 200 acres of land, well improved.  He
has filled the position of school director for fourteen years, but has
never been an office seeker.  During the late war he was a strong Union
man and held the position of President of the Union League of his 
vicinity.  Mr. Smiley was married April 20, 1851, to Miss Sarah J.
McConnell, a native of Belmont County, Ohio, born August 17, 1832.
They have had a family of seven children: Mary A. M., Nancy B., now 
Mrs. W. H. Young; James A., Sarah E., Joseph A., Ida J. and Luretta.
Himself and wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church in which
he has held the position of elder for twenty three years.

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