Santa Barbara County Biographies

N. D. SMITH

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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N. D. SMITH began his pioneer life at the age of eleven years by moving 
with his parents from Hanover, New Hampshire, where he was born in October, 
1833, to Kendall County, Illinois, where his father followed farming. Our subject worked 
at farming until 1870, when he came to California in com pay with his two brothers, J. 
M. and Frank Smith. They settled at Carpenteria, and N. D. and Frank were pioneers 
in the shipping and lumber business, taking all merchandise through the surf to vessels, 
shipping wood and grain. In 1874 they built a wharf and deliveries were made much 
easier. In 1876 he sold his interest to Frank and J. M. Smith and the subject of this 
sketch came to Santa Barbara and started merchandise business at 618 State street, 
under the firm name of Smith & Johnson. In 1886 Mr. Smith bought Mr. Johnson's  
interest and has since continued alone; he carried a full line of groceries, crackers and 
provisions. 

He was first married in Kendall County, Illinois, in 1859, to Miss Louise Frise, who 
died in 1877. He then married Miss Carroll Edwards in Santa Barbara in 1879. 
They have one child: Bernice Dee Smith, who was born March 28, 1880. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.