Biography of ISAAC SMITH, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	ISAAC SMITH, farmer, Corley, Ark. Among the successful
agriculturists of Logan County whose merits are such as to
entitle him to representation in the present work is Mr. Smith,
the subject of this sketch. He was born in the Buckeye State in
1822, and was the son of Peter and Mary (Carson) Smith, the
father a native of Virginia and the mother of Pennsylvania. The
educational attainments of Isaac Smith were of rather a meager
order, and he was early initiated into the duties of farm life,
which occupation has continued to be his chosen calling up to the
present time. He has closely applied himself to the same and with
what success may be inferred from a glance over his fine farm of
160 acres in Mountain Township, Logan County, Ark. In 1861 Mr.
Smith enlisted in the army, and remained in service until 1864,
when he was discharged for disability, having received a severe
wound in March of that year. He was wounded by the explosion of
a boiler, and lay on a bed of suffering from March, 1864, until
October of the same year. He lost the sight of his right eye by
the hot water, and came very near losing the sight of the other
eye. His left knee was dislocated at the same time, and he was
disabled for life. Mr. Smith was married to Miss Annie McKinney
in 1840, and the fruits of this union were four children: John
(deceased), Mary, Isaac D. and Catherine (deceased.) Mr. Smith
was married, the second time, to Hester A., daughter of James
and Katie Cummins, and to this union were born three children:
Ellen, Peter and James (deceased.) Mr. Smith is a Republican in
politics. Mrs. Smith is a devout member of the Baptist Church.