Smith - WHH
Source: H.W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, Indiana (Chicago:
HH Hill, 1881) p 558 (thanks Deb)
W. H. H. SMITH, undertaker and wagon maker, Darlington, is a
native of Cincinnati, having been born in that city in 1800. His
father, George G. Smith, is still alive, in his eighty-fifth
year, having been born in 1796, his mother died in 1860, in her
fifty-eighth year. He received his early education in his native
city, but left school at the early age of thirteen years. We next
find him filling a position as shipping clerk in a chair factory,
and later he learned the wagon making and carpenter's trade. In
1866 he came to Darlington, where he engaged in the grain trade,
and for the last four years has been working at the handicraft
which he learned in his youth, in which he ranks as a talented
workman. Previous to his arrival here the subject of this memoir
was located at Fredericksburg and Rockwell, and at the former
place, in 1860, he married Miss Mary E. KELSEY, daughter of Mr.
Enos N. Kelsey, one of the early settlers in this County, by whom
he has a family of six children: George A., Thomas Edwin, Eva
May, Florence Belle, Mary Grace, and William Evarts. Mr. Smith
fitly represents that class of self made men of whom this country
contains so many. Leaving school at an early age he has by his
reading and study improved himself greatly, and by his energy and
industry succeeded in building up a splendid business connection.
He is a prominent and hard-working member of the I.O.O.F., and
takes great interest in the objects and purposes of that noble
institution. As a consistent member of the Methodist Church he is
well known, and in politics is a staunch republican.