Ancestral and revolutionary history of the Smith, Partridge, Treat, Woodruff and Lowry families . omy, with no other means ofeducation than that afforded by the little country school, or. at most the countryacademy. Of this class was Charles Stewart Smith, third child of Rev. John andEsther May (WoodrufTj Smith, born in Exeter, N. H., March 2, 1832. Trainedfrom earliest childhood to habits of self-reliance, inheriting from his Puritanancestors that rugged honesty and-strong integrity which for generations has keptthe family escutcheon unspotted, he left his country home at the age of fifteen t
Ancestral and revolutionary history of the Smith, Partridge, Treat, Woodruff and Lowry families . omy, with no other means ofeducation than that afforded by the little country school, or. at most the countryacademy. Of this class was Charles Stewart Smith, third child of Rev. John andEsther May (WoodrufTj Smith, born in Exeter, N. H., March 2, 1832. Trainedfrom earliest childhood to habits of self-reliance, inheriting from his Puritanancestors that rugged honesty and-strong integrity which for generations has keptthe family escutcheon unspotted, he left his country home at the age of fifteen tomake his way in the great metropolis. He began at the lowest round of the ladder,without friends or influence, as a boy in a large wholesale dry goods store. from that time, on reaching his majority, he entered the well-known dry goodsfirm of S. R. Chittenden & Co., as a partner, and for several years thereafter wastheir European buyer. He was one of the founders and senior partner of the drygoods commission house of George C. Richardson & Co., later George C. Rich- ^^^^^^^. ^ -^ ^-
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