Windham County VT Archives Biographies.....Smith, Harley F. September 28, 1808 - 0000
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from HISTORY OF WALWORTH COUNTY WISCONSIN by BUTTERFIELD 1882 Western Historical
Company - Chicago Pages 515. & 516. 

HARLEY FLAVEL SMITH, oldest son of RICHARD and SARAH (WHITE) SMITH; was born in
Townshend, Vt., Sept 28, 1808; he received his primary education in the common
schools; was next a student in several classical and select schools; he prepared to
enter Middlebury College in an advanced grade in the Junior year at the Chester
Academy, Chester, Windsor Co., Vt.; from Chester, he removed to Saratoga Springs, N.
Y., where, Sept. 1, 1830, he entered the office of THOMAS J. MARVIN, attorney at
law, as a student and clerk; at the close of 1831, he changed to the office of
WILLIAM L. F. WARREN, of the same place. MR. W. was at that time District Attorney
of the state county of Saratoga, and Master and Examiner in Chancery, and had a
wider range of practice than any other lawyer in the county.  He remained in the
office of WARREN until June, 1833, when he removed to the village of Wyoming, then
in the county of Genesee, where he entered upon the duties of teacher of the Latin
and Gre! ek languages and mathematics, in a school in which the REV. JOSEPH ELLIOTT
was Principal. In the spring of 1835, he removed to the village of Pike, then in
Allegany Co., N. Y., where he was engaged in a select school as a teacher, in the
same branches as at Wyoming; at the same time, he was pursuing his studies and
serving a clerkship in the law office of the HON. LUTHER C. PECK, then one of the
leading lawyers of Western New York. He continued thus engaged until May, 1838, when
he was admitted as an attorney of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at the
May term of that court, held in the city of New York. In August, 1838, he removed to
Castile, then in the county of Genesee, where he practiced his profession until the
close of 1848. At that time, in hope of regaining his impaired health, he came West;
he remained in Chicago and vicinty for several months, and finally came to Wisconsin
and located at Elkhorn May 13, 1850; he formed a law partnership with H. S.! 

WINDSOR, of that place. This connection was continued over a period of eighteen
years, during which time the firm had a very respectable practice and was classed
among the leading law firms of the county. 

MR. S. was admitted to practice in the Walworth Circuit Court May 20, 1850, and in
the Supreme Court of Wisconsin June 1851. At this writing he has practiced over
thirty years in the Supreme Court of the State.  MR. SMITH, during his extensive
practice in that court, has argued many important cases successfully, and commands
the respect and confidence of the court and bar. He is still in practice in Elkhorn,
where his well-known ability and long experience in his profession have established
his reputation as one of the leading lawyers of his section of the State. 

On the 15th day of September, 1833, he was married to LYDIA ANN NOURSE, of
Rockingham, Windham County, Vt., daughter of DANIEL and NANCY NOURSE. 

 She was a young lady of estimable 
character, good education , and was born in Rockingham, Dec. 4, 1809, and died at
Elkhorn, Wis., May 7, 1881; they had one daughter, NETTIE SMITH, their only child,
born in Pike, Alleghany Co., N.Y., Sept 19, 1835, who since her mother's death, has
directed her father's household affairs. 

MR. SMITH's father, RICHARD SMITH, was born in Townshend, Vt., May 26, 1782; was in
early life a teacher, and possessed a high order of intellectual power. His father,
DAVID S., was born in Providence, R. I., in 1761, and was a soldier of the
Revolution under WASHINGTON at Valley Forge. SARAH WHITE SMITH, the mother of the
subject of this sketch, was born in Townshend, Vt., Dec. 9, 1786; was a daughter of
EDWARD WHITE, of Attleboro, Mass., a descendant of the family of that name who came
to America in the Mayflower. Her mother, SARAH TOURTELOTT WHITE, was a descendant of
a French Huguenot, named TOURTELOTT, who emigrated from Paris to Rhode Island in the
early settlement of that state. 


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