History of Mendocino and Lake Counties California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified With Their Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of Mendocino and Lake Counties California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified With Their Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present<br><br>Mr. Smith is a native of the town of Parrish Oswego county N. Y. born March 13 1842. His father Franklin Smith went into the backwoods of Oswego county to clear up a farm and establish a comfortable home for his little family but he died before he had been able to accomplish much toward the improvement of his place or to accumulate much of this world''s goods. He had married Elizabeth House who was left with four young children: Martha now the widow of William Dillworth living in Hamilton county Ill.; Barnard who is farming in Knox county Neb. Oscar who was only sixteen years old when he enlisted during the Civil war in the Twenty - fourth New York Cavalry was captured and died while a prisoner at Andersonville and William H. The mother remarried her second husband being Martin Stern (now deceased) by whom she had six children. She lived and died in New York state reaching the age of seventy-four years.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.