Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Smith, Wm. September 9, 1814 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Smith, Wm., Herkimer, was born in Herkimer on the 9th day of September, 1814.  
He was educated in the schools of Utica and Fairfield and Union College, 
Schenectady, studied law with Gen. Gray of Herkimer, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1840.  Mr. Smith soon gave up the active practice of his profession, 
his large mercantile and real estate interests requiring his undivided 
attention.  In 1868 he was the prime factor in the establishment of the 
Herkimer Bank, of which he is president.  This bank, one of the leading 
fiduciary institutions of New York State, owes much of its success to his 
financiering.  Mr. Smith is of Mohawk Dutch descent.  He has in his possession 
the last will and testament of his ancestor, John Geo. Smith, which was drawn 
in 1730 in Albany.  Four generations have since passed away, viz., Martin 
Smith, a son of John George Smith, John M., a son of Martin, and John Smith, 
the son of John M. Smith, and father of William Smith.  Wm. Smith has held 
such local offices as trustee, school commissioner, supervisor, president of 
the village, etc., and has spent nearly all of his life upon the old homestead 
which descended to him from his ancestors.

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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