. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Oscar S. Smith was born in the town of Avoca (then in- cluded in Bath), March 31, 1816. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Smith, was a native of Dutchess Co., N. Y., and settled with his family in Bradford Co., Pa., as one of the pioneers of that county, where he died at an advanced age. His father, Henry Smith, was about ten years old when the family settled in Pennsylvania; was mar- ried to Anna
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Oscar S. Smith was born in the town of Avoca (then in- cluded in Bath), March 31, 1816. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Smith, was a native of Dutchess Co., N. Y., and settled with his family in Bradford Co., Pa., as one of the pioneers of that county, where he died at an advanced age. His father, Henry Smith, was about ten years old when the family settled in Pennsylvania; was mar- ried to Anna Spalding, of Sheshequin, Bradford Co., Pa., and immediately thereafter came to Steuben County, settling in the then town of Bath, in 1814, purchased a tract of land, built a saw-mill, and began clearing his land and manufacturing lumber. He spent the remainder of his life on this farm, quietly following agricultural pursuits ; was a man of correct habits, strict integrity of purpose, and unobtrusive in all his ways. He died about the close of the late Kebellion at the age of eighty, having lived in this county to see the forest give place to cultivated fields, and schools, churches, and public buildings take the place of the pioneer's rudely constructed log buildings. The wife and mother died at the age of fifty-seven, about the year 1850. She was a daughter of Maj. William Spald- ing, and granddaughter of Gen. Spalding, of Eevolutionary fame. Their children are Oscar S.; Mrs. S. W. Park, of Athens, Pa.; Maria; Eeuben O., of Clean, Cattaraugus Co.; Erastus H., of Towanda, Pa. (deceased) ; Henry B., of Lyndon, Osage Co., Kan.; and Mrs. Franklin J. Marshal, of Wheeler, this county. Mr. Smith received his education from books in the common schools of his early days, which although of a limited amount formed a taste for reading and study, which he has cultivated during his life. His minority was spent at home, engaged with his father in farm and lumber business. At the age of twen
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