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SOURCE: History of Lapeer County, Michigan
        with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
        of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
        H.R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1884
        

         Page 43
         
              
              HIRAM SMITH was born in Monroe County, N.Y., November
         25, 1823.  At the age of eight he moved with his parents to
         the town of Bruce, Macomb County, Mich.  Residing there one
         year, they came to Lapeer County.  He worked on his father's
         farm until he was seventeen years old, then worked for him-
         self two years at farming.  At the age of nineteen he learned
         tailoring, in which business he has been almost continuously
         employed until the present time.  Is now working in his son's
         tailoring establishment on Main Street, village of Almont.
         He was married in 1847 to LORETTA BLACK, of Almont, and has
         four children.
         
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