Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Boyd County

Martin L. Smiley, M.D., was born in Greenup County, Ky., May 16, 1842, and
is a son of Walter and Jane M. (Dillon) Smiley.  Walter Smiley was born in
Botetourt County, Va., August 6, 1806, was of Irish descent was a farmer,
came to Kentucky about 1830, settled in Greenup County about five miles 
from Portsmouth, Ohio, and in 1848 moved to that town and was there 
engaged in canal-boating until his death, September 20, 1852.  Mrs. Jane M. 
Smiley was a native of Culpeper County, Va., and was a descendant of Lord 
Dillon of Ireland.  Martin L. Smiley was reared and educated in Portsmouth, 
Ohio.  May 16, 1861, he entered the Twenty-second Virginia Infantry, was 
elected Captain of Company K, was in the fight before Richmond, and was 
wounded at Group Mountain, West Virginia.  May 19, 1865, he was paroled at 
Madison, Fla., where he remained a year after the close of the war, and then 
returned to Portsmouth, O., broken down in health.  He sold books and other 
articles for a while, reading medicine in the meantime; he then attended
lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, graduated in 1877, 
and began practice at Catlettsburg, Ky., the same year.  He has been quite 
successful as a physician, but makes a specialty of surgery.  He is a Knight 
Templar, Patriarch Militant in the I.O.O.F., and is Captain of Canton Boyd, 
No. 11, at Catlettsburg; in religion he is a Methodist, and in politics a 
Democrat.

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