S. H. SMART.
S. H. Smart, who is one of the prominent farmers of Detroit township, owning a good property which is within the corporate limits of the village of Detroit, has in the control of his business affairs shown keen discrimination and also capability and unfaltering diligence. He has one hundred acres of land and his property is the visible evidence of well directed energy. He is classed with the early settlers of the county, dating his residence here from 1853. He was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 28, 1837. His father, Samuel G. Smart...
S. H. Smart spent his boyhood days and youth upon his father's farm. He was in his sixteenth year when he came with his parents to Illinois, and assisted him in clearing the home property in Pike county. To some extent he attended the common schools, but he is almost wholly self-educated and has greatly broadened his knowledge through reading, experience and observation. In 1861 he went to California, making the overland trip with teams, being five or six months upon the way. He stopped this side of the mountains and went to work at Virginia City as a carpenter, being employed about a year there. He then continued his journey to Washington territory, where he spent a year in the gold mines, after which he returned to Virginia City and was engaged in mining there. He met with a fair degree of success during the two years spent at that place, after which he returned to Reese River and passed the winter at Salt Lake City. In the succeeding spring he went into the mines in Montana, where he remained during the summer, after which he again passed the winter in Salt Lake City, and then again made his way to the mining regions. Two years were passed there and during the second summer he was engaged in the butchering business at Deer Lodge. He afterward returned to Salt Lake City, sold his horses and went by stage to the Union Pacific road, where in November he took a train that carried him home. Upon returning to Pike county he purchased the old homestead farm and stock of his father, and the following year he began farming on his own account.
On the 7th of June, 1870, Mr. Smart was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Hogsett, a native of Ohio, who was reared here from early childhood, having been brought to Pike county when only two or three years old. Mr. Smart since built a large and attractive residence and good barns. He has also fenced and improved his place, has planted an orchard and has added modern equipments and accessories that indicate a progressive and practical spirit. His fields return good crops and he is also engaged in raising high grade Aberdeen Angus cattle. He formerly bred and fattened both hogs and cattle and he was also engaged in buying and shipping stock. In all of his business affairs he is energetic and far-sighted and has that force of character and determination that enable him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.
Mr. and Mrs. Smart are the parents of four children: Walter J. is one of the well known breeders of pure blooded Aberdeen Angus cattle in Pike county; Edith is the wife of David Sneeden, a farmer and stock feeder of Newburg township; Rutherford B. met his death by accident while attending the State Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, when a young man of nineteen years; and Georgia died in infancy.
Mr. Smart is recognized as one of the public-spirited men of Pike county and has assisted in advancing the interests of the village of Detroit and the surrounding country as well. Politically he is a republican where national issues are involved while locally he votes independently. He has served as justice of the peace and police magistrate, occupying the positions for years, and has been a delegate to the county conventions and chairman of the township committee. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Detroit, in which he is serving as steward and has held other offices. He has helped to improve and make the county what it is to-day and in Detroit township is well known for his practical and active efforts. His business career will bear closest investigation and scrutiny and he is to-day numbered with the well known and prosperous farmers and stock-raiser of Pike county.
Past and Present of Pike County, pp. 199-201
S. H. Smart, who is one of the prominent farmers of Detroit township, owning a good property which is within the corporate limits of the village of Detroit, has in the control of his business affairs shown keen discrimination and also capability and unfaltering diligence. He has one hundred acres of land and his property is the visible evidence of well directed energy. He is classed with the early settlers of the county, dating his residence here from 1853. He was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 28, 1837. His father, Samuel G. Smart...
S. H. Smart spent his boyhood days and youth upon his father's farm. He was in his sixteenth year when he came with his parents to Illinois, and assisted him in clearing the home property in Pike county. To some extent he attended the common schools, but he is almost wholly self-educated and has greatly broadened his knowledge through reading, experience and observation. In 1861 he went to California, making the overland trip with teams, being five or six months upon the way. He stopped this side of the mountains and went to work at Virginia City as a carpenter, being employed about a year there. He then continued his journey to Washington territory, where he spent a year in the gold mines, after which he returned to Virginia City and was engaged in mining there. He met with a fair degree of success during the two years spent at that place, after which he returned to Reese River and passed the winter at Salt Lake City. In the succeeding spring he went into the mines in Montana, where he remained during the summer, after which he again passed the winter in Salt Lake City, and then again made his way to the mining regions. Two years were passed there and during the second summer he was engaged in the butchering business at Deer Lodge. He afterward returned to Salt Lake City, sold his horses and went by stage to the Union Pacific road, where in November he took a train that carried him home. Upon returning to Pike county he purchased the old homestead farm and stock of his father, and the following year he began farming on his own account.
On the 7th of June, 1870, Mr. Smart was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Hogsett, a native of Ohio, who was reared here from early childhood, having been brought to Pike county when only two or three years old. Mr. Smart since built a large and attractive residence and good barns. He has also fenced and improved his place, has planted an orchard and has added modern equipments and accessories that indicate a progressive and practical spirit. His fields return good crops and he is also engaged in raising high grade Aberdeen Angus cattle. He formerly bred and fattened both hogs and cattle and he was also engaged in buying and shipping stock. In all of his business affairs he is energetic and far-sighted and has that force of character and determination that enable him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.
Mr. and Mrs. Smart are the parents of four children: Walter J. is one of the well known breeders of pure blooded Aberdeen Angus cattle in Pike county; Edith is the wife of David Sneeden, a farmer and stock feeder of Newburg township; Rutherford B. met his death by accident while attending the State Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, when a young man of nineteen years; and Georgia died in infancy.
Mr. Smart is recognized as one of the public-spirited men of Pike county and has assisted in advancing the interests of the village of Detroit and the surrounding country as well. Politically he is a republican where national issues are involved while locally he votes independently. He has served as justice of the peace and police magistrate, occupying the positions for years, and has been a delegate to the county conventions and chairman of the township committee. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Detroit, in which he is serving as steward and has held other offices. He has helped to improve and make the county what it is to-day and in Detroit township is well known for his practical and active efforts. His business career will bear closest investigation and scrutiny and he is to-day numbered with the well known and prosperous farmers and stock-raiser of Pike county.
Past and Present of Pike County, pp. 199-201
S. H. SMART.
S. H. Smart, who is one of the prominent farmers of Detroit township, owning a good property which is within the corporate limits of the village of Detroit, has in the control of his business affairs shown keen discrimination and also capability and unfaltering diligence. He has one hundred acres of land and his property is the visible evidence of well directed energy. He is classed with the early settlers of the county, dating his residence here from 1853. He was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 28, 1837. His father, Samuel G. Smart...
S. H. Smart spent his boyhood days and youth upon his father's farm. He was in his sixteenth year when he came with his parents to Illinois, and assisted him in clearing the home property in Pike county. To some extent he attended the common schools, but he is almost wholly self-educated and has greatly broadened his knowledge through reading, experience and observation. In 1861 he went to California, making the overland trip with teams, being five or six months upon the way. He stopped this side of the mountains and went to work at Virginia City as a carpenter, being employed about a year there. He then continued his journey to Washington territory, where he spent a year in the gold mines, after which he returned to Virginia City and was engaged in mining there. He met with a fair degree of success during the two years spent at that place, after which he returned to Reese River and passed the winter at Salt Lake City. In the succeeding spring he went into the mines in Montana, where he remained during the summer, after which he again passed the winter in Salt Lake City, and then again made his way to the mining regions. Two years were passed there and during the second summer he was engaged in the butchering business at Deer Lodge. He afterward returned to Salt Lake City, sold his horses and went by stage to the Union Pacific road, where in November he took a train that carried him home. Upon returning to Pike county he purchased the old homestead farm and stock of his father, and the following year he began farming on his own account.
On the 7th of June, 1870, Mr. Smart was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Hogsett, a native of Ohio, who was reared here from early childhood, having been brought to Pike county when only two or three years old. Mr. Smart since built a large and attractive residence and good barns. He has also fenced and improved his place, has planted an orchard and has added modern equipments and accessories that indicate a progressive and practical spirit. His fields return good crops and he is also engaged in raising high grade Aberdeen Angus cattle. He formerly bred and fattened both hogs and cattle and he was also engaged in buying and shipping stock. In all of his business affairs he is energetic and far-sighted and has that force of character and determination that enable him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.
Mr. and Mrs. Smart are the parents of four children: Walter J. is one of the well known breeders of pure blooded Aberdeen Angus cattle in Pike county; Edith is the wife of David Sneeden, a farmer and stock feeder of Newburg township; Rutherford B. met his death by accident while attending the State Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, when a young man of nineteen years; and Georgia died in infancy.
Mr. Smart is recognized as one of the public-spirited men of Pike county and has assisted in advancing the interests of the village of Detroit and the surrounding country as well. Politically he is a republican where national issues are involved while locally he votes independently. He has served as justice of the peace and police magistrate, occupying the positions for years, and has been a delegate to the county conventions and chairman of the township committee. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Detroit, in which he is serving as steward and has held other offices. He has helped to improve and make the county what it is to-day and in Detroit township is well known for his practical and active efforts. His business career will bear closest investigation and scrutiny and he is to-day numbered with the well known and prosperous farmers and stock-raiser of Pike county.
Past and Present of Pike County, pp. 199-201
S. H. Smart, who is one of the prominent farmers of Detroit township, owning a good property which is within the corporate limits of the village of Detroit, has in the control of his business affairs shown keen discrimination and also capability and unfaltering diligence. He has one hundred acres of land and his property is the visible evidence of well directed energy. He is classed with the early settlers of the county, dating his residence here from 1853. He was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 28, 1837. His father, Samuel G. Smart...
S. H. Smart spent his boyhood days and youth upon his father's farm. He was in his sixteenth year when he came with his parents to Illinois, and assisted him in clearing the home property in Pike county. To some extent he attended the common schools, but he is almost wholly self-educated and has greatly broadened his knowledge through reading, experience and observation. In 1861 he went to California, making the overland trip with teams, being five or six months upon the way. He stopped this side of the mountains and went to work at Virginia City as a carpenter, being employed about a year there. He then continued his journey to Washington territory, where he spent a year in the gold mines, after which he returned to Virginia City and was engaged in mining there. He met with a fair degree of success during the two years spent at that place, after which he returned to Reese River and passed the winter at Salt Lake City. In the succeeding spring he went into the mines in Montana, where he remained during the summer, after which he again passed the winter in Salt Lake City, and then again made his way to the mining regions. Two years were passed there and during the second summer he was engaged in the butchering business at Deer Lodge. He afterward returned to Salt Lake City, sold his horses and went by stage to the Union Pacific road, where in November he took a train that carried him home. Upon returning to Pike county he purchased the old homestead farm and stock of his father, and the following year he began farming on his own account.
On the 7th of June, 1870, Mr. Smart was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Hogsett, a native of Ohio, who was reared here from early childhood, having been brought to Pike county when only two or three years old. Mr. Smart since built a large and attractive residence and good barns. He has also fenced and improved his place, has planted an orchard and has added modern equipments and accessories that indicate a progressive and practical spirit. His fields return good crops and he is also engaged in raising high grade Aberdeen Angus cattle. He formerly bred and fattened both hogs and cattle and he was also engaged in buying and shipping stock. In all of his business affairs he is energetic and far-sighted and has that force of character and determination that enable him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.
Mr. and Mrs. Smart are the parents of four children: Walter J. is one of the well known breeders of pure blooded Aberdeen Angus cattle in Pike county; Edith is the wife of David Sneeden, a farmer and stock feeder of Newburg township; Rutherford B. met his death by accident while attending the State Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, when a young man of nineteen years; and Georgia died in infancy.
Mr. Smart is recognized as one of the public-spirited men of Pike county and has assisted in advancing the interests of the village of Detroit and the surrounding country as well. Politically he is a republican where national issues are involved while locally he votes independently. He has served as justice of the peace and police magistrate, occupying the positions for years, and has been a delegate to the county conventions and chairman of the township committee. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Detroit, in which he is serving as steward and has held other offices. He has helped to improve and make the county what it is to-day and in Detroit township is well known for his practical and active efforts. His business career will bear closest investigation and scrutiny and he is to-day numbered with the well known and prosperous farmers and stock-raiser of Pike county.
Past and Present of Pike County, pp. 199-201
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