Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Reedsburg:

S. F. Smith, of the firm of Rork & Smith, cigar manufacturers, Reedsburg; was born at Augusta, Oneida Co., N.Y., May 22, 1832; his father, Timothy Smith, died in Watertown, N.Y., in 1875; his mother Lucy Smith, died in 1873; Mr. S.F.Smith came to Newport, Wis., in the spring of 1854, and for several years engaged in the hardware business; then spent two years in Dalton, Wis., after which, in 1865, he came to Reedsburg and began his present business as cigar manufacturer. He has been twice married; by his first wife he had two children. He married his second wife, Miss Nellie Eggleston at Fox Lake, Wis., on May 4, 1870; she was born Dec. 27, 1845; the only child of this marriage, Byrd L., was born April 30, 1877.

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