Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm JUDGE HENRY M. SMITH, brother of the preceding (Colonel George H Smith), was born near Arlington, Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1844; was in the Confederate service; three years, being Captain of a company for a time; was in Mexico 1866-�67; January 2, 1868, reached San Francisco, and taught school in Oakland Academy until May, 1869, since which time he has been a resident of Los Angeles, practicing law; was Superior Judge from March, 1883, to the following January, filling Sepulveda�s unexpired term. page 193 SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California - Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1889 - Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben.