Biographical Sketch of William L. Smith, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William L. Smith, editor and proprietor of the Marshfield Chronicle, is
a native of Webster county, Mo., born May 19, 1857, being the son of
C. C. and Sarah (Nichols) Smith.  The father was born in Tennessee in
1829, and the mother in North Carolina in 1833.  The family came to
Webster county in 1844, settling twelve miles south of the county seat,
and in 1869 moved to Marshfield.  William L. Smith is the eldest of
five children.  He remained on his father's farm until about thirteen
years of age, and since then has resided in Marshfield.  He received a
common school education, and October 9, 1872 he entered the office of
the Marshfield Democrat, where he began learning the printer's trade,
and has since continued that calling.  Since January, 1877, he has 
been publishing the Chronicle, which is newsy and full of interesting
matter.  Mr. Smith is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also a member
of the I. O. O. F., and is Democratic in his political views. 

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