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- SIMON SMITH, junior member of the firm of JOHNSON &
- SMITH, painting contractors of Beloit Rock County, is a man
of character and standing and takes the common-sense business
view of any subject proposed to his attention. He is a level-headed,
practical man of affairs, and his administrative ability has
been recognized by his election to the chief position of the
city, he having served as mayor of Beloit in 1899, 1900 and 1901.
- Mr. SMITH was born Nov. 14, 1839, and is a son of Samuel
and
- Mary Ann SMITH, who had four sons, all of whom are living:
Samuel, Simon, Sidney and Sandy. In 1856 the parents came to
Beloit where the father engaged in painting. He died in 1881,
at the age of sixty-nine and the mother survived him several
years, reaching the age of seventy-five. Both were members of
the Episcopal Church. He was treasurer of the city at the time
of his death. Both the maternal and paternal grandfathers of
Simon SMITH died in England.
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- Simon SMITH grew to manhood in Beloit, where he attended
the city schools, and made fair
- progress in the acquisition of an education. When the Civil
war broke out the young man enlisted in Company D, 15th Ill.
V.I. and served as a private from May, 1861, to October, 1865.
He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, and all
the engagements on the "march to the sea," closing
with the battle at Bentonville, N.C. After the war had ended
Mr. SMITH returned to Beloit, and took up the painter's trade,
which has been his life calling. For the last twenty years he
and J. T. JOHNSON have been in partnership, and their business
has been large and important.
- Simon SMITH and Miss Sarah A. BRIGHT, daughter of Henry and
Sarah BRIGHT, were
- married Nov. 2, 1865, and they have a handsome home at No.
838 Fourth street. Their union has been blessed by the birth
of five children, Edith, Stella, Louis, Sidney and Fred. Mr.
SMITH is a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 10 A.F. & A.M.,
Beloit Chapter, No. 9, R.A.M., and Beloit Commandery, No. 6,
K.T.; is also a member of the United Workmen of America, and
of the Home Forum. He has been a member of the county board for
fourteen years, and in 1898-99 was chairman of the board, of
which he is still a member.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 476-477; lithograph from same book.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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