Lacrosse-Clark-Monroe County WI Archives Biographies.....Smith, Orange 1801 - 
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ORANGE SMITH, retired farmer; P. O. West Salem; born in Chateaugay, Franklin 
Co., N. Y., in 1801. Was married to Harriet Ketchum, born in Orvilie, Brooklyn 
Co., Vt. Mr. Smith resided in Franklin County till 34 years of age, when he 
emigrated to Cook Co., Ill., thence to Lake County. His wife died in Illinois 
February, 1851; his present wife was Lavina Holden, born in Vermont in 1814. 
Mr. Smith came to La Crosse County in 1851, and entered a farm in the town of 
Onalaska, which he sold in 1875, and removed to West Salem in 1876. He had 
nine children by first wife, first seven of whom were born in Franklin Co., N. 
Y.; the others in Lake Co., Ill.; six of the children are living - Henry 
resides in Oregon; Franklin in California; Julia, now Mrs. William Armstrong 
in Clark County; Anna E., now Mrs. Alden Putnam in Monroe County; Mrs. Sarah 
Smith and Mrs. Lovica Withey. His oldest daughter, Mary E., was the wife of 
Mr. Abner Gile, of La Crosse; she died Aug. 31, 1877. Mr. Smith was County 
Commissionery three years; was Justice of the Peace in the town of Onalaska 
for several years.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 828.

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