History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana From
the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical
Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc.  Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., & Co.,
History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. 5, p. 196,
Lincoln County.   

JAMES B. SMITH, M. D.  A member of an old Georgia family
where he grew up, where he did a service as an educator for a number of
years and where he also practiced medicine.  Doctor Smith for some years
past has been a busy country doctor at McKinney, and has practiced in that
section of Lincoln County steadily except for the time he spent as an
officer of the Medical Corps during the World war. Doctor Smith was born at
Fairburn, Georgia, July 20, 1867.  He is of English ancestry.  His
grandfather, Lewis Smith, spent all his life in Fayette county, Georgia,
where he was born in 1800 and died in 1874. He owned a large plantation,
worked it with many slaves before the war, and was a man of substance and
influence in that community.  He married a Miss Post, also a native and
life-long resident of Fayette County. Their son, James M. Smith, has lived
all his life in the vicinity of Fairburn, Fayette County, where he was born
in 1846.  His mature activities have been given to farming and
merchandising, and he is still a merchant at Fairburn.  As a youth he
enlisted and served with the Fayette County Blues in the Confederate Army
and participated in some of the great battles of the war, continuing until
the close of the struggle.  He is a democrat and a member of the Baptist
Church.  James M. Smith married Martha West, who was born in Fayette County
in 1848, and died there March 14, 1920.  Doctor Smith is the oldest of
their children: Mattie E. lives at Atlanta, Georgia, widow of Rev. W. H.
Cox, a Baptist clergyman; John W. is an automobile mechanic at Atlanta;
Mary F. is the wife of Charles Eason, a carpenter at Atlanta; Mrs. Eliza E.
Ewing died at Atlanta when twenty years of age; Mrs. Sallie A. Upchurch is
the wife of a farmer in Clayton County, Georgia; William E. and Edward L.
are both identified with farming in Fayette County, Georgia. James B. Smith
spent his early life on his father's Georgia farm, attended rural schools,
graduated from the high school at Jonesboro in 1885 and in 1889 received
his A.B. degree from Harvard University, also at Jonesboro, Georgia.
Doctor Smith followed the profession of an educator for twelve years.  In
1902 he began his first year in medical studies at Georgetown University in
Washington, District of Colombia, then for two years attended the National
Medical School of Washington, and in 1906 received his M. D. degree from
the Medical Department of Howard University at Washington.  During his
senior year he was an interne in the University Hospital, and after
graduating remained a year at the capital to engage in private practice.
For one year he practiced at his native town of Fairburn, and for five
years was in Morrow, Georgia.  Coming to Kentucky, Doctor Smith was in
practice at Kings Mountain in Lincoln County from 1913 to April 1, 1915,
and since the latter date his home and professional work have been at
McKinney.  He has the entire field, being the only physician and surgeon in
the town, and owns a modern residence and offices at the corner of Main and
Stanford streets.  He is a member of the Lincoln County, Kentucky State
American and the South Medical associations. May 12, 1918, Doctor Smith
began his duties with the Medical Corps, being trained at Camp Greenleaf,
Chickamauga Park, Georgia, was commissioned a captain, and on July 10,
1918, was sent to Camp Gordon at Atlanta, where he was battalion surgeon of
the First Training Battalion.   September 8, 1918, he was ordered to Camp
McClellan, Aniston, Alabama, where he continued his duties as a battalion
surgeon to the Third Receiving Battalion until mustered out December 6,
1918. Doctor Smith votes as a democrat, is a member of the Baptist Church,
and is affiliated with McKinney Lodge No. 631, F. and A. M.,
with Franklin Chapter No. 22, R. A. A., and Ryan Commandery No. 17, K. T.,
at Danville, Kentucky.      Doctor Smith married at Stanford, Kentucky,
October 15, 1908, Miss Gertrude Gooch, daughter of Tom W. and Docia Belle
(Horton) Gooch, who live on a farm near Hustonville.  Doctor and Mrs. Smith
have one daughter, Alice Marie, born February 27, 1910.