Identifier: montanaitsstoryb03stou (find matches)
Title: Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ...
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Subjects: Montana -- History Montana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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re-enlisted in the Heavy Artillery, in whichhe was commissioned a captain, and as such serveduntil the close of the war. He then located in FergusPalls, Minnesota, where he engaged in the farmmachinery business until 1917, when he retired andhas since made his home in Miami. Florida. Heserved as deputy sheriff of Ottertail County, Minne-sota, several terms, and also served several termsas chief of police of Fergus Falls. He was alsohonored in being selected as a member of the staffof Governor John Lind. Politically he was for-merly a republican, but of late years has given hissupport to tlie democratic ticket. He is a memberof the Grand Army of the Republic and of theMasonic fraternity. Laura E. Smith, mother ofthe subject, was born in Vermont in 1843, and herdeath occurred in Miami, Florida, in 1919, at theage of seventy-six years. To this worthy couplewere born five children, of which number the sub-ject of this sketch is the eldest. WilliamN. Smith received a good practical educa-
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HISTORY OF MONTANA 667 tioii in the public schools of Fergus Falls, Minne-sota, and at the age of eighteen years he beganworking in a flour mill there, receiving $1.25 a day.Soon afterward he became superintendent of thePage Flour Mill at Fergus Falls. He became anexpert miller, and in 1891 he was appointed headmiller and superintendent of the Grafton Flour Millat Graftan, North Dakota, with which mill he wasidentified in that capacity for nineteen years. Thismill subsequently became known as the GraftonRoller Milling Company, in which Mr. Smith be-came a stockholder, and in 1910 he was elected vicepresident of the company and superintendent ofits milling operations. In 1911 he located in Harlow-ton, Montana, where he constructed the first flourmill in the Musselshell Valley. In 1912 Mr. Smithwas one of the organizers of the Montana FlourMills Company, one of the largest and most im-portant milling companies in Montana. The com-pany has flour mills at Great Falls, Lewiston andBozeman,

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