[p. 869] principal and proprietor of Smith's Business College at New Castle, and identified with other important interests here, has been a resident of this city for the past eight years. He was born in 1866, in Iowa.
Mr. Smith was eleven years old when the family left Iowa and settled in Texas, but his education was continued at Lenox College, located at Hopkinton, Iowa. Subsequently he graduated from the Bayless Business College at Dubuque, Iowa, and still later from the Gem City Business College at Quincy, Ill. From that time until 1900 he was employed as instructor or as principal of business colleges at several points. In April of that year he came to New Castle and bought out the business college that was then being conducted here, at the same time establishing Smith's Business College, which has a reputation for efficiency that extends over a large territory and attracts students from many sections. The college curriculum includes shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping and stenography, with other business features. There have been as many as 260 students enrolled in one year, and many of these left the college to accept positions of responsibility, the preparation they received here qualifying them for almost any line of business. Mr. Smith is also manager of the Globe Realty Company, doing a regular real estate business, and he is a director in the Home Trust Company.
On December 29, 1892, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Loie A. Goss, a resident of Peterson, Iowa, and they have five children: Gertrude, Lillian, Monroe, Arminta, and Althea. The family hold membership in the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is a steward. For three years he has been president of the Lawrence County Sabbath School Association. Fraternally, he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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