A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . has developed into thebeautiful city of Seattle. Dr. Smith was bom near Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, on the nthof April, 1830, and is of German lineage on the paternal side, while on thematernal he is of English ancestry, the two families being founded in Americaduring an early epoch in her history. His great-grandfather, CopletonSmith, served his country in the Revolutionary war. He owned one thous-and acres of land,
A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . has developed into thebeautiful city of Seattle. Dr. Smith was bom near Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, on the nthof April, 1830, and is of German lineage on the paternal side, while on thematernal he is of English ancestry, the two families being founded in Americaduring an early epoch in her history. His great-grandfather, CopletonSmith, served his country in the Revolutionary war. He owned one thous-and acres of land, over which the city of Philadelphia has since spread andfrom which he was driven by the Indians, who murdered his wife. Later,when he returned to his property, he found that it had been taken by others,who met him with rifles and would have killed him had he pressed his was a man of wonderful physical endurance and lived to the very advancedage of one hundred and twenty years. When one hundred years old he cutten new teeth. Nicholas Smith, the father of the doctor, was born in Pennsylvaniaii: 1799. He married Abigail Teaff, a native of \irginia, and they removed. W^L^ SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 265 TO Wooster, Ohio. He was a minister of the Christian church and engagedin preaching during the greater part of his hfe. He died in his fiftieth year,but his wife, long surviving him, passed away at the ripe old age of eightyyears. She came west with her son, the Doctor, and acted as his housekeeperthroughout the pioneer period in Seattles development. A most earnest anddevoted Christian woman, she belonged to the church in which her husbandwas a minister and her influence was widely felt for good and left an indeli-ble impression upon the lives and characters of her children. She was themother of nine children. The only surviving one, with the exception of theDoctor, is Samuel T. Smith, who resides in Florida. Dr. Smith was educated in the public schools and Alleghany Collegea
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