John W. Smith

            JOHN W. SMITH, Jr., Deputy County Treasurer, is a native of Marion, Grant County, Ind., and son of John W. and Cassandra (McKahan) Smith. His father is a member of the Methodist ministry. He came to Albion in 1868, and for three years was pastor of the Methodist Church there, and in 1880 returned where he now labors. John W. is the sixth child of a family of eight children. At the age of fourteen, the time of removal of his parents to Albion, he became an assistant in the post office under William W. Snyder, P.M., with whom he remained one year. He then entered the County Clerk’s office, where he was engaged one year, subsequently entering the Auditor’s office, under Stewart, where he was associated five years. In 1878, he was a prominent candidate for the auditorship, He next became Deputy Treasurer until 1879, when he entered the grocery store of his father-in-law, A.J. Kimmell, Esq., and was associated in that business until August, 1881, when he became the Deputy of Treasurer Lang. Mr. Smith was married in march, 1876, to Miss Emma E. Kimmell; they have one child, William Frank.

Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor. Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor. F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1882, page 377-378.