(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 629)

Enos Smith was elected county judge in October, 1865, and assumed the duties of the office the following January. The election was a very close one, Mr. Smith receiving but a plurality of two votes. He served in this capacity one year, and then retired upon his laurels. Mr. Smith came to Worth county from Illinois in 1857, being one of the early settlers of this locality. A man not quick to make up his mind, but a steady, quiet, deter­mined worker when settled in any belief. His official actions generally met the views of the people of the county, but he had no desire to pursue the fleeting phantom of public office, preferring the shades of private life. In 1866 or 1867 he emi­grated to the State of Missouri, where he at present resides

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, Feb. 5, 2006