BIOGRAPHIES:  George H. SMITH, Galesville, Trempealeau Co., WI

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GEO. H. SMITH, farmer, Sec. 8, P. 0. Galesville, came to
Wisconsin in 1845; was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., May 14,
1820. After his arrival in this State, he located in the town of
Lafayette Walworth Co., where he bought a farm which he cultivated
for eight years; in the spring of 1854, entered the land
of which his present farm consists, and in March of the same year
was called home to New York to witness the death of his father;
returning to Trempealeau Co, in October 1854; he began to improve
his claim, his nearest neighbor on the north being twenty-two
miles away. The first crop of wheat that Mr. Smith raised, he
marketed at La Crosse, and was glad to get 40 cents per bushel;
has raised eleven hundred bushels of wheat on thirty-six acres of
land; he also had to go to La Crosse in 1860, to get a horse shod,
and at one time took a two-horse wagon load of wool to Trempealeau,
for which he received $104, having been offered $1,200,
at his door before he started with it, but was unable to accept it
because the wool was contracted for. He was married in Wayne
Co., N. Y., in May, 1850, to Miss Carrie C. Johnston, by whom
he has one son living - Welcome J., also one dead - Willie, who
died in 1861.

--Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," 
page 1065


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