History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . native of New York of Scotch descent. He moved toMount Vernon, Iowa, and there in Linn County in 18S4 took up Governmment their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John Neal Smith lived on the old homestead foreighteen months, when they sold the property and went back to Stanwood. For the next year and a half Mr. Smith ran an agricultural implement store there,and when he disposed of that
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . native of New York of Scotch descent. He moved toMount Vernon, Iowa, and there in Linn County in 18S4 took up Governmment their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John Neal Smith lived on the old homestead foreighteen months, when they sold the property and went back to Stanwood. For the next year and a half Mr. Smith ran an agricultural implement store there,and when he disposed of that, he purchased a farm near Stanwood. embracing 110acres, which were devoted to general farming, although he specialized in stock, buyingand selling cattle. He also had a general store at Stanwood and handled generalmerchandise, grain and provisions. In August, 1881, he sold out and came west toSanta Ana, Cal. Here for five years he was engaged in the meat business with JamesMcFadden, and then he sold that pioneer his interest. For a year he engaged in thegrocery trade, but sold that also. When the boom came he went into the realestate business with Judge Humphrey and George Minter, but the boom burst. At. L/flyi^CtAAoi^4i/i^^Cty^^y^o^i^ ^r^^^^n^t^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 395 the end of eleven years of residence here he went back to Iowa, having sold all thathe owned in Santa Ana, and he farmed in Lyons County for nine months. The lureof California, however, brought him back here again in 1892, and he settled on a ranchof twenty-one acres on Fruit east of Grand Avenue, and there he devoted his time andenergies to the culture of walnuts and oranges until September, 1913, when he died,mourned by all who knew him. Mrs. Smith now resides at 122 East Eleventh Street,Santa. Ana, but still owns the ranch, which now comprises twenty-nine acres devotedto oranges and walnuts. Seven children, five boys and two girls, make up the family of this estimablelady: William M., Margaret E., Marth
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