Biographical Sketch of Richard Smith, Franklin County, Missouri

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

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Richard Smith, teacher at Mount Pleasant, was born, in 1843, in Penn-
ington, Lanchashire, England and is the eldest of the eleven children
of Henry and Sarah Ann Smith, natives of West Leigh, England, from
which place they moved to Golborne, where the father was game keeper
for Col. John W. Lee, of Lyme Hall, Cheshire, for nearly twenty years.
At the present time he is game keeper for Thomas Stone, Esq., of 
Newtonle-Willows, Lancashire.  Mrs. Smith died in 1881, aged fifty-six
years.  Mr. Smith is still living, at the age of sixty-three, and is a
son of James and Nancy Smith; the former a son of Henry and Ann (Horr-
ocks) Smith.  The Smiths were stanch Royalists.  Mrs. Sarah Ann Smith
was a daughter of Richard and Phoebe (Leathers) Smith.  Her father was
a civil engineer of Manchester, England.  Richard Smith, the subject 
of the present sketch, began weaving silk at the age of eleven, and 
continued at the same occupation until seventeen, when, for the follow-
ing three years, he worked in cotton mills and coal mines.  He next 
went to Liverpool and worked for the London & North Western Railroad
Company as delivery clerk for nearly five years.  At twenty-five years
of age, on Christmas Day, 1868, he was married to Mary Ann Caldwell, 
of Golborne, Lancashire, England, and in May, of the following year, 
he and his wife set sail for America, landing in New York on the 18th
of May, 1869.  They first located for a few months in Wayne County,
Mich., but removed thence to the State of Missouri, where Mr. Smith 
was employed by the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company as a
watchman for nearly a year.  He later, was occupied for about one year
in clerking for E. J. Roberts of Robertsville.  In 1871 he taught 
school, then again worked for Mr. Roberts a short time; and afterward
engaged in school teaching, at which, in connection with farming, he
has since continued.  He resides on a well improved farm of 215 acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six children, namely: William C., Sarah A.,
John E., Walter, Mary A., and Richard.  In politics he is a Republican,
and was elected justice of the peace in 1882, being re-elected in the
fall of 1887.  He is a Master Mason, and has served for several years
as Worshipful Master of the lodge at Robertsville, and is at present
Secretary of the same.

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