|
KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: SMITH, John
******************************************************************
Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 1999
******************************************************************
History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 455-456
JOHN SMITH, who has been a resident of Kanawha County, W. Va., the greater
part of his life and now conducts a first class meat market at Cedar Grove,
was born December 4, 1869, in Loudon District, Kanawha County, and is a son
of John and Marjorie (Flayman) Smith.
The parents of Mr. Smith were natives of Scotland and they were reared and
married there and did not start for -America until after their first child
was born. The father came to the mining sections of Kanawha County and was a
very industrious and reliable man, servmg under Joseph Patterson, a well
known con-tractor, in tunnel construction. His death cc-curred in 1882, in
Louden District, at the age of fifty-two years. He married Marjorie Flay-man,
who died in 1896, at the age of fifty-two years. Six children weTe bom to
them, namely:
Catherine, who is the wife of 0. G. Griffith; Jennie, who is the wife of
Charles E. Simpson; and George L., Frank, John and Joseph P.
Mr. Smith spent his early boyhood in work-ing on the farm on which his
parents lived and attending the country schools; and later became a miner at
the Acme mines on Cabin Creek and still later at other mines. In 1904 he came
to Cedar Grove to work at the Sunday Creek mines' and has remained here ever
since, on December I, 1910, going into partnership with C. E. Chandler in
the meat business. They continued together until June, 1911, when Mr. Smith
bought Mr. Chandler's interest and he now does a very satisfactory business,
having a fine local trade and operating a wagon through' the mining district.
Mr. Smith was married first to Miss Carrie Angel, and after her death was
married to Miss Augusta Jackson, a daughter of Edward Jackson, of Hernshaw,
W. Va., and they have one child, Virginia. Politically he is a Democrat. He
is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows, both at
Marmet. W. Va.
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
State Contact for WV GenExchange
http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm
|
