Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Smith, Nanno 1850 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OIF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

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 downtrodden 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.


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