BIOGRAPHIES:  Adam Smith, Galesville, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Adam Smith, a well known and respected resident of Galesville, was
born in Scotland, Oct. 16, 1842.  He came to America with his parents
in 1855, locating with them in Maryland, where his father worked in
the coal mines one year.  In 1856 they came to Jackson County,
Wisconsin, where Adam Smith was married July 18, 1865, to Jane D.
Love.  She was born in Scotland July 29, 1846, and came to this
country with her parents in 1849, they also locating in Maryland,
where her father became a foreman in the coal mines.  The Love family
came to Jackson County in 1864.  Following agriculture in Jackson
County until 1893, Adam Smith then came with is family to Trempealeau
County, purchasing a farm of 120 acres in section 17, Gale Township.
Later he added to this a 20-acre tract of timber land, thus enlarging
his property to 140 acres.  This farm he operated until 1908, when he
retired, renting it to his son, Edward D., and he and his wife taking
up their residence in Galesville.  They were the parents of eight
children:  John Thomas, a ranchman at Panhandle, Texas; Arthur Love
of Keokuk, Iowa; James W., deceased; William James, a farmer of
Caledonia Township, this county; Margaret Clark, now Mrs. Hugh Baird
of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, her husband being a contractor; Janet
Minus, wife of Milton Butman, a farmer of Gale Township, Trempealeau
County; Edward D., residing on the old farm in Gale Township, and
Flora Elizabeth, now Mrs. John Twesme of Galesville. 

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin,
1917," 
pages 798-799 

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