EDWARD SMITH - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 673 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


EDWARD SMITH, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Rochester; born in Yorkshire,
England, in 1826 came to Andover, Mass., in 1847, and to Dover in 1850;
he owns 165 acres land in Sec. 3, and has a beautiful residence and
large barns, built by him. He married in Andover in October, 1847,
Charlotte Lindley, of Yorkshire, England, and has two sons- Joseph and
Edward; his wife died in Yorkville in 1853, and is buried there. He
married again, July, 1874, in Union Grove, Wis., Miss Jane L. Skewes,
daughter of Henry and Grace Skewes, old settlers in Yorkville. He does a
large business in fine shorthorn breeding cattle, and also ships pork to
Racine and other markets; has some fine draft-horses, and raises small
grain also on his farm.