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Samuel N. Smoot, stock-dealer and farmer, was born in Mason County, Ky., December 11, 1847, and is the youngest but one of six children, five sons and one daughter, born to William and Eliza (Perrine) Smoot, both natives of Mason County, Ky. Grandfather and Grandmother Smoot were from Maryland, and among the early settlers of Kentucky. The grandparents on the mother’s side were from New Jersey, and were also early settlers of Kentucky. William and Eliza (Perrine) Smoot were married in Kentucky, and there passed their entire lives. He was a farmer and stock-raiser by occupation; enlisted in the Mexican War, but was not called out; was a Whig in his political views; and both he and his wife were members of the Christian Church. He lived to be seventy-three years of age, and she lived to be seventy. Samuel N. Smoot was educated to a limited extent in the common schools, and, at the age of nineteen, he began for himself. October 15, 1874, he married Miss Ella Gordon, a native of Kentucky, and this union resulted in the birth of one child, Anna Marie. After living in Kentucky until 1884 Mr. Smoot came to Lamar, and has been engaged in the real estate business until the present. He owns 640 acres of land one mile south of Kenoma, Barton County, and fifteen acres adjoining Lamar, besides a number of lots in Lamar. He has been raising and shipping stock both in Kentucky and this State. On his farm are two springs and indications of lead. Both he and wife are members of the Christian Church. As a business man, Mr. Smoot has been quite successful, having made the most he has by his own efforts. Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party.