Bio: Smith, Charles S. (1881)

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Surnames: Smith, Wright

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1212

CHARLES S. SMITH, foreman for Upham Bros., Marshfield, has been at Marshfield since May, 1878. He was born in Lexington, Mass., March 17, 1822, left Massachusetts in 1848, and came to Milwaukee; is a mason by trade, at which he worked until 1855, when he went to Branch, Manitowoc Co., as a foreman in a saw-mill, remained there eight years, then went three miles above there, and bought a shingle and sawmill, which he ran for about two years, then went to Glenmore, Brown Co., and in October, 1871, went to Angelica, Shawano Co., built a saw-mill there, and in 1878, came to Marshfield. He was married, May, 1845, to Miss Caroline Wright, of Cambridge, Mass. Have three children — Sumner C, now in Denver, Col., Austin, and Justain.