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Dr Hiram Leslie Smith

Birth	:	19 Oct 1828 Constable, Franklin County, New York, USA
Death	:	18 Sep 1921 Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Geneva Cemetery, Geneva, Fillmore County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.5359900, -97.6064900
Plot	:	Sec. 1 Lot 52 Plot 06
Description	:	From A Compendium of Biography .. HON. HIRAM LESLIE SMITH, M. D., is one of the oldest business men of Fillmore county, and bears upon his shoulders the burden of seventy years of an active and earnest life. He is the president of the Citizen's Bank, of Geneva, and may properly be spoken of as one of the leading men of Nebraska. Dr. Smith was born in Franklin county, New York, October 19, 1828, and is a son of John C. and Esther Parker (Culver) Smith, both of whom were natives of Vermont, and settlers of... Read More	From A Compendium of Biography .. HON. HIRAM LESLIE SMITH, M. D., is one of the oldest business men of Fillmore county, and bears upon his shoulders the burden of seventy years of an active and earnest life. He is the president of the Citizen's Bank, of Geneva, and may properly be spoken of as one of the leading men of Nebraska. Dr. Smith was born in Franklin county, New York, October 19, 1828, and is a son of John C. and Esther Parker (Culver) Smith, both of whom were natives of Vermont, and settlers of New York very early in life. His father removed to Ohio about 1835, and for many years was steward of Granville College, a Baptist institution near Granville, that is now known as Denison University. He passed his last years in retirement in Steuben county, Indiana, where several of his children have established themselves. Dr. Smith was about seven years old when his parents removed to Ohio and he received a very liberal education for the times. He was a student at Granville University, and became a very successful teacher. Teaching, however, was for him but a stepping stone into the field of medicine. At twenty-two he began his preparation for the profession, and reading at intervals, he worked his way along a difficult road into professional success. He went into the harvest field, and swung a cradle for two dollars and fifty cents a day, and by other equally arduous labors paid his way through school. He graduated from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute in 1856, after taking a full course of instruction with a creditable standing, and entered into professional practice at Flint, Indiana, where he met with success from the start. He was at Flint seven years when he removed to the neighboring town of Orland, where he found an enlarged field for his professional labors, which he fully utilized. For fifteen years he held a prominent position in the affairs of Orland and vicinity, and exerted a wide influence for good upon a host of young men. He was a trustee of the Indiana Northwestern Institute for fifteen years consecutively, from which a great number of students have gone to the University of Michigan. It is thought that perhaps more people have prepared for that famous university at this school than any other similar institution. During these years he made several trips to Nebraska, and thinking it presented a favorable opportunity for investments, put in considerable money in different ways in this county and in the city of Lincoln. These interests soon became extensive and demanded annual trips for their proper conservation. Finally he determined to settle in Nebraska, and give all his time to his extensive commercial enterprises. He made his home in 1875 in Geneva, where he has since resided. It was but a most insignificant village then, of scarcely fifty inhabitants, but presenting great possibilities as the prospective county seat. He has done much to build up the town in these intervening years, and while he has declined to practice his profession he has never been able to refuse the demands of old friends, who were his patrons back in Indiana. Wherever he has render medical assistance he has uniformly refused all compensation, preferring to regard it as neighborly kindness rather than professional work. In the meantime the business interests of the quondam Indiana doctor have grown very extensive. For a dozen years or more he was the partner in the general mercantile establishment of J. T. Platt & Company, but in the main has preferred to keep very close to his real estate enterprises. That he has a large faith in Fillmore county and this part of the west is supported by the fact of his owning twelve hundred acres in this county, and more than one thousand acres in Jefferson county, besides other western lands in large amounts. He became associated with the Citizens' Bank of Geneva, soon after its organization, and for the last four years has been its president. It was organized January 1, 1885, with a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars, which was but half paid up. To-day it has a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, fully paid in, and a standing as one of the solid financial institutions of the west which is beyond question. He was the first mayor of the city, and served three consecutive terms since in that capacity. It was during his administration that the water works were installed, and other advanced steps taken. He was elected state senator in 1885 and has always been an ardent Republican. In the senate he made a good record and became known throughout the state as an inflexible opponent of vicious and injudicious legislation. In local interests Dr. Smith has always taken a large view of all questions and worked for the best interests of his own community. He has recently donated his magnificent private library of nearly eight hundred volumes for the purpose of establishing a city library and reading room. The new philanthropy has its rooms on the third floor of the Citizens' Bank building, and is in the charge of the Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges as trustees. It bears the name of the H. L. Smith Library in his honor, and has possibilities of limitless good.

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Dr Hiram Leslie Smith's memorial is located at: Geneva Cemetery, Geneva, Fillmore County, USA.
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Dr Hiram Leslie Smith death on 18 Sep 1921 in Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 40.5359900
Longitude: -97.6064900

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Harriet Newell “Hattie” Smith Butler

(1856 - 1919)

Curtis Adams “Curt” Smith

(1857 - 1944)

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