Sacramento County Biographies

HART FELLOWS SMITH

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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GEORGIANA TOWNSHIP. 
Page 263-264.
 
	Was born April 16, 1832, in Illinois. In 1839 he went with 
his parents to Tennessee, where his home was made till April 16, 1852, when he 
started across the plains with ox teams, arriving in Sacramento September 27, 
1852. He located on Grand Island in October of the same year. Mr. Smith began 
business in California by chopping wood at two dollars and fifty cents per cord. 
During the month of March, 1853, he removed to his present farm, which embraces 
six hundred acres, and in 1878 the fine three-story house in which he now lives 
was built. The land is all well adapted to the growing of grains, fruits, etc. 
Mr. Smith has at different times held various offices; among them, Master of 
Subordinate Grange (which he has represented in the State Grange several times) 
and Justice of the Peace. He is literally a self-made man. In early times he 
followed brick-making and brick-laying. Of later years farming has engaged his 
attention principally, though freighting on the river has not been entirely 
neglected. August 14, 1860, Mr. Smith married Margaret McKever, of Tennessee. 
They have seven children living and three dead. Mr. Smith has lost all trace of 
his family in America, the family record having been lost. A view of his place 
may be seen elsewhere. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.