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ADAM SMITH, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 36; P. O. Gordon. The subject of this sketch was born in Wittenburg, Germany, Nov. 7, 1818, and is a son of Frederick and Catherine Smith, natives of the same place. His father died when he was quite young, and his mother when he was 13 years of age; his father was a shoemaker by trade, but our subject was a weaver, and followed his trade in various places. He came to this country in 1848, and landed in New York, his voyage occupying eight weeks. He went from there to Pennsylvania, where he remained five weeks, and then went to Cincinnati, and was employed on the river steamers, and made runs to New Orleans for about two months, when he abandoned the river and came to Dayton, where he was employed for some time, and then to Miami Co., remaining for six years, working in a tan-yard; thence to near Miamisburg, for five years, and followed farming. He was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Stover, Oct. 15, 1854. They were natives of Pennsylvania, afterward residents of Montgomery Co.; both are dead, dying at advanced ages. Mrs. Smith was born in Montgomery, Sept. 24, 1824. Mr. Smith is one of our self-made men, as he began life with no capital, and he has, by good management and industry, made a good property; in all his trials and labor he has been nobly assisted by his wife, and they now own 80 acres of land, all in a good state of cultivation, and his improvements are No. 1 in every particular, all made by their hard, earnest labor, and they have a good home, surrounded by all the comforts of life. They are the parents of only one child, John A., born July 17, 1859. Mr. Smith has been a member of the Lutheran Church all his life, and is a consistent Christian gentleman.