Smith, Samuel bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 461, Astoria Township
Samuel Smith, agriculturist, was born in Pennsylvania in 1802. In his youth he learned the gunsmith's trade. In his native State he was married to Miss Elizabeth McCormick, who became the mother of 8 children, 7 of whom are still living, - Harvey, who resides in Kansas; Alfred lives in Astoria tp.; A. J., who married Miss Brown, lives in this county; Samuel, jr., married Mary Coe and lives on the farm homestead, Phoebe A. married John M. Tingley, and lives in Missouri; Mary resides in Arkansas and is the wife of D. S. Schenck; Elizabeth, the wife of J. G. Shane, lives in Nebraska.
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