Edgar Co. IL Biographies - Charles B. Smith

Surname: Smith

Submitter: Tracy Smith
EMAIL: tjpblshr@phnx.uswest.net
DATE: Jun 29 2000


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From the book, "History of Edgar County, Illinois, 1879":


CHARLES B. SMITH, grocer and confectioner, Paris; was born in Muskingum Co.,
Ohio, Sept. 12, 1847, where he was raised and schooled; he came with his
parents to Edgar Co. in 1861, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, and
continued until 1869, when he embarked in the grocery business, in which he
was successful until 1870, when he was burned out, but reopened in 1871, and
has since met with fair success; he is a young man of good social qualities
and fine business ability and on the full tide of success.