Nicholas County, West Virginia    Biography of Henry S. SMITH

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 76

HENRY S. SMITH is vice president of the First National
Bank of Richwood, Nicholas County, in which city he is
also superintendent of the Cherry River Boom & Lumber
Company, one of the important industrial corporations of
this section of the state.

Mr. Smith was born in the State of Maryland, September
15, 1874, and is a son of Dr. Albert H. and Agnes B.
(Bradley) Smith, the former of whom was born in the State
of New York, in 1836, and the latter of whom was born in
the State of Delaware, where she was reared and where her
early educational advantages included those of Newark
Academy. Dr. Albert H. Smith was reared on a farm in
the old Empire State and received his early education in the
common schools of the period. He was a youth when he
became a resident of Delaware, where he took a full course
and prepared himself for the dental profession. After his
marriage he established himself in practice at Rising Sun,
Maryland, and there he continued in the successful practice
of his profession until within two years prior to his death,
which occurred in 1920, his wife having passed away in
1897. Of their four children the eldest is George A., who
is treasurer of the Baker-Whiteley Coal Company at Balti-
more, Maryland; A. Bradley, a printer by trade and voca-
tion, is in the employ of the great Curtis Publishing Com-
pany in the City of Philadelphia; M. Adeline, whose death
occurred in 1919, was a graduate of the Friends Normal
Institute at Rising Sun, Maryland.

Henry S. Smith, the last in order of birth in the family
of four children, was reared at Rising Sun, Maryland,
where he supplemented the discipline of the public schools
by a course of study in the Friends Normal Institute, an
excellent institution conducted under the auspices of the
Society of Friends. In the autumn of 1888 he assumed the
position of stenographer and bookkeeper in the offices of
the Susquehanna Water Power & Paper Company, with
which corporation he continued his connection until July,
1897, when he entered the employ of the Beaver Creek Lum-
ber Company at Davis, Tucker County, West Virginia. In
1902 he resigned his position with this company and re-
moved to Richwood, where he became paymaster for the
Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company, he having been
advanced in 1911 to the office of assistant superintendent,
and the year 1920 having recorded his promotion to his
present responsible office, that of superintendent.

Mr. Smith is known and honored as one of the loyal
and progressive citizens of Richwood, and he has given effec-
tive service in local offices of trust. He was city recorder
two terms, has given several years of service as a member
of the auditing committee of the city government, and has
been for ten years a member of the Board of Education.
His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and
in the Masonic fraternity his affiliations are with Richwood
Lodge No. 122, A. F. and A. M., of which he is a past
master; Richwood Chapter No. 97, R. A. M., of which he
is a past high priest; Sutton Commandery No. 16, Knights
Templar; and Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine in
the City of Charleston. Mrs. Smith, her two daughters and
the elder son hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at
Richwood.

On the 16th of October, 1900, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Smith and Miss Flora L. Collins, who was born
and reared in Hampshire County, West Virginia, and the
children of this union are four in number: Mildred A.
and Dorothy 0. graduated from the Richwood High School
and are, in 1922, pursuing higher studies in a school at
Beechwood, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; William A. is in
the sixth grade of the public schools at Richwood, and
Henry Bradley is the youngest of the number.