Among the thoroughly skilled practitioners of Guilford is Dr. Frederick Dewitt Smith, one of the younger representatives of the medical profession, who is in close touch with the most modern methods of medical and surgical practice. He was born in New Haven, July 2, 1885, a son of Edward Dewitt and Josephine (Leete) Smith. The father was born at East Haven, Connecticut, and during the greater part of his life he occupied the position of bookkeeper in the Second National Bank of New Haven, in which city he passed away. His wife was a daughter of Joshua G. Leete, who was born in Guilford, Connecticut, and was a descendant of Governor Leete.
     Dr. Frederick Dewitt Smith acquired his education in the graded and high schools of New Haven and prepared for his professional career as a student in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1910. He put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test as interne in the Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital and in 1912 he opened an office in Guilford, where he has since remained. He engages in the general practice of medicine and surgery, and he is health officer at the present time of the town and borough of Guilford. He belongs to the Connecticut State Medical Association, the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
     On the 30th of October, 1914, Dr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Grace Palmer Deming, of New Haven, who was born in Waterbury, a daughter of Ferdinand and Altha (Miner) Deming, who were natives of Thomaston, Connecticut. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have one child, Dewitt Deming, born in Guilford, January 29, 1916.
     In his political views Dr. Smith is a republican and fraternally he is connected with Menuncatuc Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., of Guilford, of which he is past noble grand, and is a Mason in St. Albans Lodge. He belongs also to the Episcopal church. He holds to high ideals in relation to communal interests and activity as well as in his profession, and his genuine worth and many admirable characteristics have won for him the warm regard of all with whom he has been associated.