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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 181]
         
         J. S. SMITH, saw-mill, Chilton. Born in Franklin Co., Me.,
       Jan. 11, 1832. When he was eight years of age, he lost his 
       father, who died in 1840, and when nine years of age he had 
       started for himself. At the age of eighteen he ran an engine 
       on the Medford & Taunton road, and then went to Stillwater, 
       Minn., then in the woods lumbering. He followed that life 
       till 1863, when he went east again, and took an engine on
       a coal railroad. On leaving this situation he went home to 
       Maine on a visit. He came to Oshkosh, Wis., in 1867, where 
       he worked in the lumber business, and to Chilton in 1875, 
       entering into partnership with D. L. Libby in the saw-mill, 
       sawing hard wood at the rate of 8,000 feet a day. In 1872 
       he married Miss REED, of Maine. They have three boys - 
       ROY R., EUGENE and LYNN. Mr. SMITH was an Alderman in Chilton
       in 1878, but resigned, not taking any part in local politics. 
       They attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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