Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Smith, Nanno 1850 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

NANNO SMITH, who carries on the most extensive general merchandise business
conducted in the town of Lennox, is a native of Hanover, Germany, and was born
in 1850. He remained in the "fatherland" until 1872, when he sought in free
America the chance of achieving a competence denied in the land of his birth, so
down-trodden is it by military despotism. His first stopping place in this
country was in Freeport, Ills., where he stayed a short time and then went
further west and located in Grundy county, Iowa. In 1881 he arrived in Lennox,
Lincoln Co., Dak. Ter., and at once engaged in merchandising, and by tact and
perseverance at his chosen vocation, has built up the most extensive business
carried on in Lennox. He also owns a valuable section of choice land adjoining
that town. In political faith Mr. Smith strongly adheres to the doctrines of the
Republican party, the candidates of which he supports with his vote.

    In 1873 Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Anna Freerichs, and to them
have been born eight children, six of whom are living, viz.; Joseph, in business
with his father; Kate, Benjamin, Otto, Simon and Ella.

    The subject of this biography is a son of Benjamin and Katrina (Weirenga)
Smith, both natives of Hanover, Germany, where they grew to mature years and
were married. They raised a family of five children, our subject being the
eldest, then, in the order of their birth, as follows: William B., Talka,
Benjamin and Tina. William B. was the first of the family to emigrate to
America, crossing the broad Atlantic in 1869, when he was but fifteen years of
age, Nanno following in 1872. In 1878 the father, mother, and balance of the
family, took passage for the new world, coming to Grundy county, Iowa, where the
two sons had preceded them. The father died three years after coming to America;
by trade he was a cabinet-maker, but owing to his ill health was unable to
follow his vocation in this country. The mother survived until the spring of
1894, when she also passed to her reward beyond the grave.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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