Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Smith, George A. September 29, 1842 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Smith, George A., Frankfort, one of five children of Alonzo and Samantha 
(Cutler) Smith, was born in Otsego county September 29, 1842.  Alonzo, the 
father, was a son of Daniel Smith of Connecticut, who was a soldier of the War 
of 1812.  Samantha Cutler, the mother, was a daughter of David Cutler, who was 
a noted Baptist minister of Vermont, who in 1827 emigrated to New Berlin, 
Chenango county.  He afterwards settled in Plainsfield, Otsego county, where 
he died at the age of eighty-seven.  George A. Smith was married January 2, 
1868, to Lucinda Holes of Unadilla Forks, one of nine children of Asa and 
Eliza (Rood) Holmes.  They have two children, Fred and Jesse Smith.  In 1862 
Mr. Smith began cheese-making with his uncle, C. W. Smith of Exeter.  They 
founded one of the first cheese factories in Otsego county.  They came to 
Frankfort in 1867 and bought the old cheese factory and built a large cheese 
business.  In 1872 he sold out his interest to his uncle, James Smith, and 
bought a factory in North Winfield whichhe sold in 1875, and bought another in 
Cassville, Oneida county, and ran it until 1888, at which time (1888) he was 
owner and lessee of four factories.  In that year he again took up his 
residence in Frankfort, and was appointed on the New York State Dairy 
Commission, he being chief dairy expert for the commission; having charge of 
the instruction work in butter and cheese-making.  One important object of the 
commission being to elevate the standard of butter and cheese-making in the 
State, giving practical instruction to many hundred men interested in this 
important industry.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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