order of Knights of Pythias. He was married, September 30, 1885, to Laura M. Hunter, daughter of Watson M. Hunter, now of Sumner County, Kansas. They are the parents of three children, Alvin Claton, Martha Elizabeth and Leon Hunter Smith. Mr. Smith is in every respect a self-made man. Since boyhood he has fought his way unaided and has surmounted innumerable obstacles, until he is to-day a leader in his profession. He is a man of great originality of thought and possessed of wonderful good nature. Nevertheless, he is quick to resent anything which appears to be an imposition and has no sympathy with trickery or unfairness in law or politics. Versatile and quick of wit, and of fine oratorical ability, he is a powerful speaker. He has also a comprehensive knowledge of the principles of the law, and his ability to apply these principles to the causes intrusted to his care have given him well deserved prominence in the legal profession. He is a brilliant conversationalist, companionable and very popular, not only among his professional brethren, but with the general public as well.

Smith, Charles Henry, surveyor of the port of St. Louis, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 13, 1855. He came to St. Louis in 1876, and studied telegraphy, and entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company. After serving that corporation two years he was appointed manager of the Western city office of the American District Telegraph Company, retaining that position until the year 1880. He resigned the managership of the District Telegraph to accept a position with Honorable R. C. Kerens. He was appointed to the surveyorship of the port of St. Louis May 4, 1897, by President McKinley, and entered upon the discharge of his official duties May 15, 1897. December 14, 1881, he married Miss Sophia Hagemann, of St. Louis. Their children are Claude Henry, Richard Lester and Gladys Amelia Smith.

Smith, George, farmer, legislator and Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, was born February 2, 1809, in Columbiana County, New York, and died near Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri, July 14, 1881. He came of patriotic lineage, both his grandfathers having been soldiers in the Revolutionary

War, and his father a soldier in the War of 1812. He was educated at the common schools and Oxford University, in Ohio, and was for a time engaged in driving cattle from eastern Ohio to Pennsylvania and Maryland, and in flatboat trading to New Orleans. In 1844 he removed from Ohio, where he had been living, to Caldwell County, Missouri, where he resided until 1868, when he removed to Clinton County, and settled on the farm near Cameron where he lived the remainder of his life. In 1852 he was elected to the Legislature from Caldwell County and served with great credit on committees that had much to do with the important railroad legislation of that time. He was an emancipationist and free soiler, and when the Civil War came, became prominent as an Unconditional Unionist. In 1862 he was again elected to the Legislature, and was active and conspicuous in the important legislation enacted in the two years following. In 1864 he was president of the Republican State convention at Jefferson City, and was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, and elected by a majority of over 40,000. He served with honor to the end of the term of four years, and in 1869 was appointed United States marshal for the Western District of Missouri. At the end of his term in 1873 he was reappointed and held the office till 1877, when he returned to private life. He was a diligent and capable public officer, an enterprising citizen, and an upright man, and possessed the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens.

Smith, George R., founder of Sedalia, and conspicuous in the development of central and western Missouri through his great services in the establishment of the Missouri Pacific Railway, and his connection with other great enterprises, was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, in 1804, the son of George and Sarah (Hayden) Smith. The father was a Baptist minister, a native of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky in 1804. He was a noted clergyman, a man of strong character and positive convictions. He was an ardent admirer of Henry Clay, and holding the same sentiments with him as to emancipation, liberated his slaves. The mother was a native of Virginia, in which State their marriage occurred. The son, George R., was sixteen years of age when