Biographical Sketch of Reuben Smith, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Reuben Smith (deceased) was born in Simpson County, KY., and when about
eighteen years of age moved to Cooper County, MO., where he worked in
the lead business.  Soon after he moved to Potosi, Washington County,
where he engaged in smelting lead, and dealing in stock.  Some time 
after he was engaged with Maj. Manning in lead smelting for about 
eighteen years, becoming well off, but during the war he lost about
$12,000.  He married Decey Mason, a native of North Carolina, who came
to Missouri when young.  They settled in Crawford County in 1855.  He
lived to be eighty-four and she, seventy-two years of age.  Of their
five children only two live in Crawford County, Henry C. and John M.,
twins, born in Washington County in 1852, though principally reared in
Crawford County.  Henry C. received a common school education, and at
the age of eighteen years began to do for himself, farming and trading
in live stock.  He spent about seven years in Texas, farming, selling
fruit and railroading, returning in 1882, when he settled where he now
lives, owning, in partnership with his brother, 444 acres of land,
which is well stocked.  It has pleased Henry C. to live in single
blessedness.  In 1887 John M. married Milona Askine, a native of Craw-
ford County.  They are both enterprising and highly respected farmers.

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