WM. C. SMITH - Biography

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This biography appears on page 633 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

WM. C. SMITH, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Lamberton; was born in Mecklenburg,
Prussia, in 1849; came to Wisconsin in 1851. Married Miss Katherine
Micholetsky in 1866; they have six children, four boys and two girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Smith owns
157 acres of land, situated eight and a-half miles north of Racine,
Section 1, Range 22, Town 4; values his land at $40 per acre; he has a
fine apple orchard and a variety of other fruits; his farm is in a good
state of cultivation. Is a Democrat; in 1872 and 1873, was Justice of
the Peace in the town of Caledonia; in 1874 and 1875, he was Chairman of
the Town Board of Supervisors.