Biography of David T. Smith, page 934.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

David T. Smith, the fourth of twelve children of David H. and Margaret 
(Treash) Smith, was born in Indiana County, Pa., April 5, 1837.  His parents 
were married Dec. 27, 1831, and in 1848 moved with their family to De Kalb 
County, Ind., and settled in Butler Township, where the mother died July 10, 
1868, and the father July 2, 1870.  David H. Smith was a well known and much 
respected citizen of the county, and was influential in advancing many of 
its public interest.  Of a family of twelve children eight are living, all, 
save two, in De Kalb County.  David T. Smith received the greater part of 
his education in Butler, completing it at the seminar.  He remained on the 
old homestead till manhood, a part of which he once owned.  In 1864 he went 
to Idaho, but remained only a few months.  Returning to De Kalb County he 
worked at the carpenter’s trade till 1877, when he settled on his farm and 
has since given his attention to agriculture and stock-raising.  He owns 
eighty acres of good land a mile east of Auburn, which is well improved 
and on which is a good residence and farm buildings.  He was married May 
4, 1875, to Julia A. Plum, daughter of Jeremiah Plum, ex-Sheriff of De 
Kalb County.  They have one son---Marion.  One son died in infancy.  Mr. 
Smith is an active politician of the old Jeffersonian school, although he 
never seeks nor desires office for himself.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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