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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 539-540]

    JAMES K. SMITH, proprietor of the Quimby meat market, has been a
    resident of Cherokee County since 1873.  He was born in Morgan
    County, Ohio, December 2, 1844, and is a son of AARON and ELIZA
    (NEWHOUSE) SMITH, natives of the State of Pennsylvania, the father
    being of Scotch-Irish, and the mother of German ancestry.  JAMES K.
    was eight years old when his parents emigrated to the West and set-
    tled twenty miles northeast of Davenport, Iowa, in Clinton County.
    There he grew to manhood, and at the age of eighteen years he en-
    listed in the Seventh Iowa Cavalry, Company L, Captain RUTTAN.  He
    served on the frontier fighting Indians in Dakota, Nebraska and the
    Yellowstone region.  Before entering the regular service Mr. SMITH
    had been engaged as Government teamster near Nashville, Tennessee.
    He was honorably discharged about April, 1865, and returned to Clin-
    ton County, remaining there until 1869, when he went to Lincoln,
    Nebraska; he afterward went to Nuckolls County, Nebraska, and he
    and a man named Ochsenbeim entered the first homesteads in the county
    at the land office at Beatrice, Nebraska.  He remained on the place
    two days when the Indians became so troublesome that he abandoned
    the undertaking and returned to Clinton County.  There he stayed un-
    til 1872, when he went to Minnesota, working in the pine forests,
    and afterward in an elevator at Glencoe.  As before stated, Mr. SMITH
    came to Cherokee County in 1873; he bought 160 acres of wild land,
    broke it, built a house and barn and planted a grove.  He sold the
    place in 1878, and bought another farm of 160 acres in the same town-
    ship, when the nearest house on the south was eight miles distant.
    Mr. SMITH became a land-holder in Linn County, Iowa, where he owned
    a good farm near Spencer Grove; this he improved, and afterward sold.
    He also owned some land near Glencoe, Minnesota, which he sold after
    coming to Cherokee County.  He also sold the second farm he owned in
    this county and now owns beside his residence in Quimby forty acres
    of land in Silver Township.  In the spring of 1888 Mr. SMITH went to
    Quimby and opened the first meat market in that town; he is doing a
    lively, profitable business, and sends a wagon into the country
    besides attending to the business in town; this enterprise is a
    great convenience to people residing at a distance from the market.
    Mr. SMITH received in his youth a good, common-school education. His
    politics are Republican.  He is a member of the General Custer Post,
    No. 25, G.A.R.  He was married October 24, 1874, at Cherokee, to Miss
    SARAH RAGEL, daughter of JOHN RAGEL, Esq., of German ancestry and
    nativity. Mr. and Mrs. SMITH are the parents of six children: MYRTLE,
    LEEMAN, NELLIE FRANCIS, O.K., ARWILLEA, and a babe not named.

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