Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Smith, John 1834 - 
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JOHN SMITH, proprietor of the Mississippi House, was born in Sweden in 1834, 
and was a son of Johannes Smith; came to the United States in 1859. He was a 
sailor, and sailed from New York City one and a half years in the coast trade; 
then went to Mobile, Ala., and stayed till 1861. He was then in the army till 
the close of the war, and came to La Crosse in 1866. He commenced building the 
Mississippi House in the fall of 1874; has accommodation for about forty 
boarders and stabling for eighteen to twenty horses. He was married in La 
Crosse, in 1872, to Mrs. Paulina Johnson, widow of Andrew Johnson. She had two 
children by the first husband - Oscar and Albert - and two by the present 
husband - Ida and Joseph Emil.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 792.

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