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HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume I, page 440 (In the section COUNTIES OF OHIO, under UNION COUNTY, is
the following paragraph.)

        WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, born in New York, 1833, was brought to Union
County at the age of three years and here he grew up to young manhood. He
was journalist, private secretary to Governor Brough, Secretary of State of
Ohio, editor of the St. Clair Papers and an intimate friend of President
Rutherford B. Hayes.

Volume II, page 560 (under the heading FIFTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY -
Regular Session, January 4 to April 12, 1858; Adjourned Session, January 2
to April 6, 1859 the following paragraph appears.)

        Another name which in after years became noted throughout the
United States appeared in the journals of this Fifty-third General
Assembly. William Henry Smith, then a young man of twenty-five years,
representing the Cincinnati Commercial as legislative correspondent, is
shown by the records to have been expelled from the privileges of the
floors of the houses because of some comments he had made upon the debates.
During the war Smith took an active part in the raising of troops, was
largely instrumental in bringing John Brough to the front for governor, and
was his private secretary after election to the office - the first of a
long line of newspaper men to hold that position. Later Mr. Smith was
collector of the port of Chicago, appointed by President Hayes in 1877. His
greatest title to distinction, however, was in the field of news
organization. In 1883 he effected a consolidation of the New York Press and
the Western Associated Press, and served as manager of the great
consolidated association continuously until his death in 1896. He edited
"The St. Clair Papers" and was author of "A Political History of the United
States," and he made many important contributions to American history
through his researches among original documents in the British Museum.

Volume III, page 161

        WILLIAM H. SMITH, of the Canton bar, of which he has been a member
for a third of a century, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, November 30,
1864, and grew up on a farm there. When he was sixteen years of age his
parents moved to Wellsville, Ohio where he completed his high school
education. In 1888 he graduated from Wooster University, and in 1890 was
graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and admitted to the bar by the
Ohio Supreme Court. In June, 1890, he came to Canton, where he has
practiced his profession ever since. He handles an important general
practice, and has a number of business interests, being a director in and
attorney for the Citizens Building & Loan Company. He was elected mayor of
Canton in 1904, serving one term, and is a member of the Stark County Bar
Association and the Masonic Order. He is a republican and belongs to the
Brookside and Congress Lake Country clubs.
        Mr. Smith married Miss Elizabeth Frease, a daughter of Judge Joseph
Frease, one of the most distinguished jurists in the early history of Stark
County. When Judge Frease was elected to the common please bench in 1867 he
was succeeded in the law firm of Belden & Frease by a young attorney,
William McKinley, who for a number of years practiced law in the courts
presided over by Judge Frease. Judge Frease was a member of the Ohio bar
from 1851 until his death in 1909.
        Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children, Elizabeth F., Joseph F. and
Eleanor R.

Volume V, page 172

        WILLIAM A. SMITH is one of the active citizens and business men of
the town of Frankfort in Ross County. For a number of years he has been in
the automobile business, being representative of the Ford Motor Company in
his locality.
        He was born in Morgan County, Ohio, January 10, 1882, son of
William Penn and Margaret Jane (Adams) Smith. The Smith family came from
Pennsylvania and the Adams from old Virginia. His paternal grandparents
were John and Mary (Bush) Smith and the maternal grandparents were Joseph
and Violet (Breese) Adams. William Penn Smith has devoted his active career
to farming. He served thirty years on the school board, has been mayor of
Philo in Muskingum County, and was also a candidate for the State
Legislature. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife
died March 17, 1905. Of their seven children William A. is the oldest.
Arthur M. married Blanch Conway. Luke B. married Edna Chappelear. Mary J.
is the wife of Oscar Hale. Clarence E. married Wilda Reinhart. Emmett K.
married Bonnie Williams. Everett, who is married and living in Oklahoma,
was a solider in the late war in the Thirty-fifth Division, enlisting from
Oklahoma, and going overseas in August, 1917.
        William A. Smith finished his district and grammar school education
at the age of nineteen, and took up as a vocation that of stationary
engineer. For ten years he followed the work of an engineer and for two
years was in charge of the light and water plant at Frankfort. While thus
engaged he also took up the automobile repair business, opening a garage,
and finally resigned his work with the city. In 1913 he became a sub agent
under the Chillicothe Ford agent, and in the following year was appointed
an agent with full responsibility in his own territory direct from the Ford
Motor Company. Mr. Smith has a fine garage and has proved one of the very
capable Ford representatives in Ross County. During the World war he was in
the fourth class. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
        On June 27, 1906, he married Anna May Weller, third child of Albert
and Mary (Axline) Weller. Her parents are farmers. The other children in
the Weller family were: Homer, who married Eva French; Samuel, who married
Nora Daringer; Fred, who is married; Nora, wife of Joseph Pletcher; Roy,
who married Miss Miller; Mabel, wife of Thomas Mauler, and William, who was
a soldier in the World war. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith are:
Ellen T.; Russell, now deceased; and Mary Gladys.


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