B. F. Smith  Biography  Hancock County, WV

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Submitted by Dale Patterson <Norton750@aol.com>

Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:


B. F. Smith:
    was born in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, in 1811.  At the early age of sixteen he apprenticed to learn the pattern making trade, and also became 
a machinist, which vocations (being closely allied,) he followed for some 
thirteen years at Cincinnati, Ohio.  In 1848 he migrated to West Virginia 
and located in New Cumberland, engaging in the firebrick business, which he 
has ever since been following.  Married Miss Amanda Cox, daughter of Jacob 
Cox, of Dearborn County, Indiana.  They have a family of six boys and one 
girl.  Elected to the office of justice of the peace in 1860, serving as 
such for years.  He was elected to the legislature in 1864-5.  Is a 
stockholder in the Scioto Fire Brick Company, and also in the West Virginia 
Fire Brick Company.  He and family are members of the Presbyterian Church of 
New Cumberland.