S. P. Smith

    S. P. Smith, grain merchant, was born in Richmond, Indiana, March 23, 1849, is the fifth of eleven children of David A. and Martha J. (Parker) Smith, and of Scotch-German descent. the parents of S. P. Smith were natives of Ohio and North Carolina respectively, who moved to Richmond and engaged in milling, thence, after eleven years, to near La Fayette, thence to Rainsville, where Mr. Smith abandoned milling. He afterward moved to vermillion County, Illinois, where he purchased a large tract of land and now resides. Mrs. Smith died March 21, 1871.

    Our subject remained with his father until 1870, in which year, on the 9th of January, he married Miss Sarah, daughter of J. W. and Nancy M. Hash, who died March 21, 1875., having borne two children -Clinton E. and Lois B.(deceased). Mr. Smith was next married, October 17, 1877, to Miss Lydia A., daughter of Henry and Ann Myers, by which union were produced two children -Anna B. and Frederick P.

    In 1882, Mr. Smith in partnership with G. W. Swadbey, began the milling business; but the mill burned February 9, 1883. He is now in the grain trade, and has been very successful. Mr. Smith is a radical Republican, and in April, 1864, enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Illinois Volunteers, and was honorably discharged October, 1864. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the M. E. Church.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.