Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . rs and in the councils and on thebattlefields of the new Republic. Hon. Pliny Smith, father of Theodore,born in 1761, died in 1840, was the leading mind in northern Vermont in hislifetime, and at different periods was a member of the General Assembly, aState senator, and for many years a justice of the Supreme Court of Smith was educated at the high school and at the college at Castle-ton. At the age of twenty-one he married Lucy, daughter •of Dr. AsherNichols, and shortly afterward moved to Springvill
Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . rs and in the councils and on thebattlefields of the new Republic. Hon. Pliny Smith, father of Theodore,born in 1761, died in 1840, was the leading mind in northern Vermont in hislifetime, and at different periods was a member of the General Assembly, aState senator, and for many years a justice of the Supreme Court of Smith was educated at the high school and at the college at Castle-ton. At the age of twenty-one he married Lucy, daughter •of Dr. AsherNichols, and shortly afterward moved to Springville, N. Y., where he beganlife as a merchant. In 1838 he moved to Ellicottville and entered the officeof the Holland Land Company under Mr. Clarke, whose daughter, EuniceSarah, he had married, his iirst wife havyig died some years previously. In1843 he was admitted to the bar, but ntver practiced; the legal training, how-ever, proved of great value to him in later life when, burdened with the careof his own and other estates, he had many complicated interests to Town of Ellicottville. ? 6oi and the welfare of widows and orphans depended upon his knowledge of legalduties. In the early thirties the Holland Land Company sold its interests tothe Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York and the latter someyears afterward transferred its title to several private individuals. Amongthese were Mr. Smith and Truman R. Colman, who since 1843 had been part-ners in the banking business. They fully appreciated the opportunity whichlay before them at this time and purchased over 150,000 acres of land in Cat-taraugus and Allegany counties, which they disposed of to the settlers in thesame manner as the old company. In 1852 the partnership was dissolved,after which Mr. Smith remained in Ellicottville disposing of his share of thepartnership lands until 1863, when he removed to New York. Although not a politician and never in office Mr. Smith took great interestin public affairs. Tho
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