A history of Texas and Texans . and inthe meantime he received unusually good educationaladvantages, attending the public schools, and subse-quently Pritchett Institute, one of the best knownschools of central Missouri. On leaving school, he en-tered the mercantile business for himself in Randolphcounty, and for eighteen years was a merchant of hisnative county. He was then associated with his fatheron the farm until October, 1888. at which date hemoved to Texas and located at El Paso, then a com-paratively small city with only a tithe of the industryand business which it now possesses. In El
A history of Texas and Texans . and inthe meantime he received unusually good educationaladvantages, attending the public schools, and subse-quently Pritchett Institute, one of the best knownschools of central Missouri. On leaving school, he en-tered the mercantile business for himself in Randolphcounty, and for eighteen years was a merchant of hisnative county. He was then associated with his fatheron the farm until October, 1888. at which date hemoved to Texas and located at El Paso, then a com-paratively small city with only a tithe of the industryand business which it now possesses. In El Paso hewas first engaged in the fuel and feed business, andafter four years became actively identified with publicaffairs, serving for eight years as city collector andas city treasurer for two years. At the end of thispolitical service he established himself in the real estatebusiness and now handles general transactions in thatline. Mr. Smith is also treasurer and vice presidentof the Consumers Ice Company of El Paso. During. TEXAS AND TEXANS the period of his other service for the city, he wasalso a school trustee, and has always been active inlocal politics and has been a public spirited citizenalways ready to give his aid and earnest work for thebetterment of local institutions. In polities he is a Democrat, and his wife is a mem-ber of the Rnptist .luirch. His fraternal affiliationsare with tli, 1 Order of Odd Fellows andthe ) of I 111 Wuria, and he has filled all thechairs in the l-Vllows Lodge. On May 18, 1885,in Kandolpli county, Missouri, he Miss LeliaSeals, daughter of Alfred Sears, nf ;i known oldfamily of Missouri. The seven cliililrcn Immh to theirmarriage are named as follows: Jiiiiiii. lioin in 1886,died in 1S89 in Randolph county; Grover Cleveland,born in Randolph county August 25, 1885, is a gradu-ate of the El Paso high school and was a student inboth the Missouri and Texas State Universities, and isnow in business
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