From the 1885 History of Steuben County, IN page 438:
Robert Smith M.D., one of the early physicians of Steuben County, was
born in Hancock, Hillsborough County, N.H., April 25, 1797, and when
six years of age was taken by his parents, James and Elizabeth (Wiley)
Smith, to the state of Ohio, where they died. While yet a young
man he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and there studied medicine under the
tutorship of Dr. McIntosh. He commenced his practice in the
province of Ontario, Canada, and there married, February 6, 1828, Eliza
Pomeroy, who was born in County Cork, Ireland, February 10, 1810.
In 1837 he moved to Seneca County, Ohio, two years later to Williams
County, and in 1842 to Steuben County, Indiana, and bought 89 acres of
land on Section 2, Otsego Township, and commenced making a home in the
wilderness. Here he lived a life of great usefulness being for
sometime the only physician of this part of the county. He
continued his practice until 1860 when failing health induced him to
abandon all except his practice among personal friends. He was a
man of dignified bearing but genial and courteous manners, and indeared
himself to his patients and friends. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity, Angola Lodge, No. 236. In politics he was a
Republican from the time of the party's organization. He died
April 5, 1878, and his wife October 1, 1879. There family
consisted of nine children, four of whom are living -- Catherine, wife
of L.P. Sisson; Robert, of Branch County, Michigan; Louisa, wife of
John Foster, and Lewis Cass. Byron died at the age of twenty
years and the rest in infancy.