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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
         
              PHILIP SMITH was born in Galen, Wayne County, N.Y., in
         1815.  At the age of four years he went with his parents to
         Palmyra, N.Y., where he was a schoolmate of JOSEPH SMITH,
         celebrated as the founder and apostle of Mormonism.  In May,
         1833, his parents moved to Almont, bringing with them a large
         addition to the population of the town, viz; ten boys and two
         girls, one of the girls being married.  They settled in the
         south part of the town.  At the age of nineteen he started out
         for himself, working by the month as a farm hand.  In 1835 he
         located on the south half of the southeast quarter of section
         31, government land.  On this farm he still lives.  In 1839
         he married Miss LURA FERGUSON, also a native of Wayne County,
         N.Y., and has three children.  Mr. SMITH is one of the few
         now living who were present at the first town meeting of the
         town of Almont (then Bristol) which was held in April, 1834.
         
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