Bio: Smith, Theophilus M. (1861 - 19??)

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Surnames: Smith, Postlethwaite, Jackson, Millard, Cooper,

---Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

---Smith, Theophilus M. (1861 -19??)

THEOPHILUS M. SMITH, who has been largely interested in lumber for a number of years and owns many tracts of valuable timber throughout the state of Wisconsin, is at present engaged in the real estate business with office at No. 313 Third street, Wausau, handling his own property entirely. Mr. Smith was born at Punxsutawney, Pa., in 1861, and is a son of the late Dr. Theophilus and Emily (Postlethwaite) Smith.  

Dr. Theophilus Smith for many years was one of Wausau's most esteemed citizens. He came here from Jefferson County. Pa., in 1862, and practiced medicine in this city until his death in 1902. He was born at Clarksburg, now West Virginia, a son of Jesse and Julia Smith, and was a schoolmate of the distinguished Confederate officer in the Civil War known as Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Dr. Smith was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and was a man of both literary and professional attainments. He was twice married, first to Emily Postlethwaite, who died in Pennsylvania, survived by one son, Theophilus M., and (second) to Mrs. Harriet Millard, who survives him and resides at Wausau.  

After completing his education at the Lebanon Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio, Theophilus M. Smith taught school in Jefferson County. Pa., for several years and then joined his father who had already been a resident of Wausau for twenty years. For five years Mr. Smith was identified with railroad affairs as a contractor after first coming to Wausau, and then embarked in the timber business and in later years has been in the real estate line mainly for the purpose of satisfactorily handling his own lands.  

Mr. Smith married Miss Mary Cooper, who died in 1907, survived by four children: Gertrude, Emily, Lawrence and Irene. Mr. Smith is identified with several branches of Masonry and also with the Knights of Pythias.