Biography of Levi Smith, pages 547 / 548.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Levi Smith, farmer and stock-raiser, Concord Township, was born in what is 
now Mahoning County, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1828, a son of Peter and Elizabeth 
Smith, early settlers of Ohio from Pennsylvania.  His early life was spent 
on a farm, and when seventeen years of age he began to work at the shoemaker’s 
trade, serving an apprenticeship.  In 1849 he bought fifty acres of land in 
Portage County, Ohio, where he lived till the spring of 1854, when he came 
to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought eighty acres of land, but very little 
being improved, and by close attention to his pursuits and industry he has 
now a farm of 320 acres all under cultivation.  He is a self-made man, and 
can now look back on a well spent life and enjoy the fruits of his early 
years of toil and hardship.  He was married April 24, 1849, to Harriet Robb, 
a native of Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Robb.  They have two 
children---Ira E. and Isaiah.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Church 
of God.  In his political affiliations he is a Democrat.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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