Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Smith, George W. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Smith, Hon. George W., Herkimer, is a native of Salisbury, and was educated at 
Fairfield Seminary, N.Y.  He studied law with Capron & Lake and the laste 
Judge Graves of Herkimer; he was editor of the "Herkimer Journal" in 1845, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1848.  In that year he became editor and publisher 
of the "Northern State Journal" of Watertown, N.Y.  In 1851 he removed to 
Boonville, Oneida county.  In 1859 he was elected county judge of Oneida 
county and re-elected in 1863.  From 1886 he was for several years leading 
editor of the "Utica Daily Observer" and also contributed largely to the 
columns of the Democratic press of Central New York.  On January 1, 1870, he 
came to Herkimer and entered into a law copartnership with the late Samuel 
Earl under the firm name of Earl & Smith, succeeding Hon. Robert Earl, then 
taking his seat in the Court of Appeals.  In 1876 he was elected supervisor of 
the town of Herkimer and the same year was put in nomination for Congress for 
the Jefferson, Lewis and Herkimer districts, but was defeated.  In 1882 he 
hwas elected to the Assembly and was chairman of the canal committee.  In 1886 
he was again a candidate for congressman in the 24th district and was again 
defeated.  He was delegate in 1880 to the Cincinnati Convention and gave the 
first vote in the New York delegation for General Hancock's nomination.  Judge 
Smith married Miss Sarah B. Hadley, a daughter of the late Dr. Hiram Hadley of 
Salisbury, and they have three children surviving.  He is now engaged in the 
practice of law at Herkimer.


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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