W. S. Smith, of the firm of Butler & Smith, grocers, Milton, was born in Detroit tp., this county, in 1859, the son of Richard Smith, an early settler of this county, where he died in 1863. This firm succeeded John T. Hall in this trade in 1879, and although young men, their energies and abilities call out a large and increasing trade.

Source: History of Pike County by Charles M. Chapman 1880