Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . I J. l)aAaj^ HjU^^clpT PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 685 a skilled surgeon anrl a tuan of whom the eoramii-nity is proiul, ennohling as he does the professionthat he has chosen for his life work. His birthoccurred in Keokuk, Iowa, May 5, 1855, he beingthe son of Jolin G. and Mar^- A. Smyth, natives ofPennsylvania and Ohio respective!}. His pater-nal ancestors were Germans, and his father is dead. Dr. Smyth was next to the eldest ciiild in hisfathers farailj- and removed with his parents toAnderson Count}-. Kan., in
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . I J. l)aAaj^ HjU^^clpT PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 685 a skilled surgeon anrl a tuan of whom the eoramii-nity is proiul, ennohling as he does the professionthat he has chosen for his life work. His birthoccurred in Keokuk, Iowa, May 5, 1855, he beingthe son of Jolin G. and Mar^- A. Smyth, natives ofPennsylvania and Ohio respective!}. His pater-nal ancestors were Germans, and his father is dead. Dr. Smyth was next to the eldest ciiild in hisfathers farailj- and removed with his parents toAnderson Count}-. Kan., in 1859. In that place hepassed his youth, receiving ail the educational ad-vantages offered in tlial section of the State ofIllinois at tliat day and at the age of eighteen com-menced a business career for himself, being em-ployed on railroads through Indian Territory andTexas. He returned to Illinois in 1873, locatingin Pike County and attending the High School atEl Dara and Barry for a time. He afterward at-tended Chaddock College at Quincy for two yearsand after completing t
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