COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: SMITH, William H. (published 1925)
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History of Ohio, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, Page 161

        WILLIAM H. SMITH, of the Canton bar, of which he has been a member
for a third of a century, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, November 30,
1864, and grew up on a farm there. When he was sixteen years of age his
parents moved to Wellsville, Ohio, where he completed his high school
education. In 1888 he graduated from Wooster University, and in 1890 was
graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and admitted to the bar by the
Ohio Supreme Court. In June, 1890, he came to Canton, where he has
practiced his profession ever since. He handles an important general
practice, and has a number of business interests, being a director in and
attorney for the Citizens Building & Loan Company. He was elected mayor of
Canton in 1904, serving one term, and is a member of the Stark County Bar
Association and the Masonic Order. He is a republican and belongs to the
Brookside and Congress Lake Country clubs.
        Mr. Smith married Miss Elizabeth Frease, a daughter of Judge Joseph
Frease, one of the most distinguished jurists in the early history of Stark
County. When Judge Frease was elected to the common please bench in 1867 he
was succeeded in the law firm of Belden & Frease by a young attorney,
William McKinley, who for a number of years practiced law in the courts
presided over by Judge Frease. Judge Frease was a member of the Ohio bar
from 1851 until his death in 1909.
        Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children, Elizabeth F., Joseph F. and
Eleanor R.


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