Carbon County UT Archives Biographies.....Smith, H. C. 1869 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

H. C. SMITH.

    H. C. Smith, filling the position of county clerk of Carbon county and
making his home at Price, was born in Gainesville, Georgia, January 31, 1869,
his parents being Ira and Elvira (Kinsey) Smith, who were also natives of
Georgia. After the Civil war they removed westward to Missouri and subsequently
established their home in eastern Kansas, where the father followed the
occupation of farming. He reared his family largely in the Sunflower state and
about 1880 was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, whom he survived for
many years, passing away in 1912.

    H. C. Smith is indebted to the public school system of Kansas for the
educational opportunities which he enjoyed but when still a youth in his teens
he started out in the business world. It was In 1884, when he was fifteen years
of age, that he entered the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad and there learned
telegraphy. He severed his connection with that road in 1896, after which he
went to Colorado and took a position « with the Denver & Rio Grande. He acted as
station agent in various parts of that state and of Utah and subsequently filled
the position of agent at Price, Carbon county, remaining with the Denver & Rio
Grande until 1912. He afterward spent four years in the employ of the Utah Fuel
Company and two years with the United States Fuel Company. In 1918 he was called
to public office, being elected county clerk of Carbon county, in which position
he has since served. He also fills the position of county auditor and clerk of
the court and his official duties are discharged with notable promptness and
fidelity. He is the owner of a home at Price and also has other city property,
which returns to him a good annual income.

    It was at Price, on the 26th of November, 1893, that Mr. Smith was married
to Miss Lillian Erickson, a daughter of Einor and Gudman Erickson, who are
natives of Denmark. Her parents are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and In 1855 came to Utah, settling at Spanish Fork. Her father
filled two missions to Scandinavia and he and his wife are now residents of
Cleveland, Emery county. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born four children:
Wilford, whose birth occurred at Provo in 1896; Arthur N., who was born at Price
in 1899; Ira, born at Price in 1908; and Beulah Wanda, whose natal year was
1916. The son Wilford joined the army in 1917 and went to France in the
following July as a member of Battery D, Fifty-first Artillery, C. A. C. He was
in France for a year and a half and saw very hard service, being again and again
upon the battle front. He was with the first twenty thousand that landed in
France and in February, 1917, he returned to the United States but remained with
the government as field clerk until September of the same year. Arthur N. joined
the army in October, 1918, and was sent to San Francisco, where he was released
some time after the armistice was signed.

    Mr. Smith is a member of the Price Commercial Club and is keenly interested
in all of its projects for the development of the city, the extension of its
trade relations and the maintenance of high civic standards. Politically he is a
democrat and it was upon that ticket that he was elected to his present
position, the duties of which he is discharging with marked capability,
promptness and fidelity.


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VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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