Biographical Sketch of Julian D. Smith, Walnut Grove Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of William and Sarah (Julian) Smith, and was
born in Laurel County, Kentucky, March 31, 1831.  His father was a 
native of Kentucky, born in 1801, and died in Oregon in 1866.  His
mother was a native of Tennessee and died in 1876.  They emigrated to
Greene County, Missouri, in 1838, and settled upon Grand Prairie, in
Center Township.  Julian D. received his education in the common school
of the county, and when he was twenty-two years of age took the "gold
fever" and went to California.  He stopped one winter at Salt Lake City
and then pushed on to the gold fields of California.  Not being very
successful in the mines he returned to this county in 1855, and comm-
enced farming, and with the exception of two trips to Texas has been a
resident of this county ever since.  He was married September 18, 1855,
to Miss L. P. Landreth, daughter of William S. Landreth, one of the old
settlers of Greene.  They have a family of six children, four boys and
two girls.  Mr. Smith was in the militia during the war but took no
active part in the struggle.  He is a Greenbacker in politics, and one
of the substantial farmers of his section.  He owns a fine farm of one
hundred and fifty-five acres, one mile southeast of Walnut Grove.

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