G.B. Smith, M.D.

            G.B. SMITH, M.D., is a native of Hancock County, Ind., was born April 12, 1842, and is the eldest of the six children of Josiah and Hanna (Braddock) Smith, the former a native of West Virginia, the latter of Pennsylvania, and of Welsh and English descent, who located in this township in 1852. Mr. Smith was a farmer and carpenter. G.B. Smith was reared in Newton County, and in 1861, enlisted in Company B, Fifty-first Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry; he was a corporal and took part at Shiloh, stone River, the siege of Corinth, the raid of Gen. Straight, and was wounded at the battle of Crooked Creek, April 30, 1863. On April 16, 1872, at Remington, he married Miss S.J., daughter of David Chambers, of Montgomery County, Ind., where Mrs. S.J. Smith was born. To this union has been bestowed one child –Mary E. Dr. Smith is now a practitioner of medicine and surgery at Foresman Station, where he has erected a fine residence; he also practiced at Brook, and formerly at Chili, Miami County. He is a graduate of 1872 from the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana by F.A. Battey & Co., 1883. Page 784.