Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Smith, Melchert June 30, 1818 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 November 28, 2008, 8:28 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Smith, Melchert, Herkimer, is a native of Herkimer and has been a farmer in the same locality all his life. Mr. Smith is seventy-four years of age, having been born June 30, 1818. He owns one hundred acres of land and has twenty-four cows in his fields. His father, Adam Smith, also resided here, and went to Canada in the war of 1812. About 1840 Mr. Smith married Mary E. Harter, and they have seven children. Mr. Smith has voted for fifty-two years and has never missed a town meeting or an election. His only son, Morgan, is married to Miss Ida Churchill. Mr. Smith is a Democrat and has always voted that ticket. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/smith700gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb