Charles Josiah Smith Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
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Surname: SMITH 
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 

Page 929

   CHARLES JOSIAH SMITH, who died in Exeter, N. H., January 17,
1893, was a life long resident of that town, having been born there Septem-

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ber 11, 1848, a son of Charles C. and Mary W. (Berry) Smith, and a grand-
son of Josiah Coffin Smith.  Charles C. Smith was born in Exeter, grew to
manhood there and for many years followed the occupation of painter.  His
wife, Mary W. (Berry) Smith, was a native of Pittsfield, N. H.  Mr. and Mrs.
Charles C. Smith were the parents of four children, of whom but one, Mrs.
Helen G. Moulton, is now living.
Charles Josiah Smith grew to manhood in Exeter, attended both the com-
mon and high school there, but left high school before graduating to enter
Burlingame's Machine Shop in Exeter as an apprentice.  He thoroughly
learned the machinist's trade and worked for that one concern over twenty-
eight years, up to the time of his death.  Mr. Burlingame, for whom he
worked so many years, says of him that in all the time he worked there he
never once even asked for more pay nor, did he ever think of leaving. Al-
though he never asked for more pay, still his services were highly valued by
Mr. Burlingame, and at the time of his death he was receiving the highest
salary paid to any machinist in the shop.  He was a steady, industrious work-
man and accumulated some very valuable real estate in Exeter.  He never
married but continued to reside in the old Smith home on High street, Exeter,
in which he was born, and in which his only surviving sister, Mrs. Moulton,
still resides, until his death.
   His only fraternal affiliation was with the I. O. O. F., and although he
never aspired to political honors, his steady worth was recognized by his fel-
low townsmen by his election, on the Republican ticket, as a member of the
New Hampshire Legislature, he being a member of that body at the time of
his death.

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