. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . ROBERT BROWN, hrown. PORTRAIT AND BlOGRAllUCAL liliCORD. 619 five years, wliile lier liuslmnd reaclicd tlie age ofeighty-two. 8. 15. Sniilli, !i,s lie is coniiiionly known, was alad of six suiiiiiiers when lie liecaiiie a lesideiit ofwhat is now Waukesha County. His opportunitiesfor education were very meager, liul his thanccsfor learning to pick up stones, hold the plow aixlswing the ax were abundant and well
. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . ROBERT BROWN, hrown. PORTRAIT AND BlOGRAllUCAL liliCORD. 619 five years, wliile lier liuslmnd reaclicd tlie age ofeighty-two. 8. 15. Sniilli, !i,s lie is coniiiionly known, was alad of six suiiiiiiers when lie liecaiiie a lesideiit ofwhat is now Waukesha County. His opportunitiesfor education were very meager, liul his thanccsfor learning to pick up stones, hold the plow aixlswing the ax were abundant and well lirst teacher in Wisconsin was Miss Mary Cald-well, who held forth in one of the primitive logschool-houses. Though deprived of good educa-tional advantages, Mr. Smith has become, by read-ing and contact with business men, an intelligentcitizen. When twenty-four years of age he wentto Minnesota and took up a claim of a quarter-section of Government land in Steele County, thusbecoming a |)K)necr f>f that county. Having re-mained there some three years he disposed of hisclaim and returned to this county and purchased alarge tract of land, of which he still owns four
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