- W. R. SMITH, was born Dec. 13, 1834, in Malden Bridge, Columbia
Co., N.Y., and came to
- Wisconsin May 2, 1850, locating at Beloit; he went to school
at Malden Bridge, and from there went to Nassau, Rensselaer Co.,
N.Y., where he also went to school, and from there moved to Beloit;
was interested with M. W. HAMMOND in the carpentering business,
under the firm name of HAMMOND & SMITH, after which he went
to Chicago, and was with Fairbanks & Co., fitting up R.R.
scales; from Chicago he went to Peshtigo, Wis., and worked at
the sash and blind business for the Peshtigo Lumber Co.; from
there he went to Dubuque, where he was assistant foreman in the
sash factory; from Dubuque he went to Beloit and worked for James
GRAY two years, then with PARKER & STONE in setting up reapers.
Mr. SMITH is interested, with Mr. CADMAN, in the manufacture
of a draft equalizer to be applied to machines when drawn by
three horses.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 766.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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