History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 549.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

H. C. SMITH, farmer and short-horn breeder; P. O. North Middletown, was
born in Bourbon County on the 16th of June 1848.  His grandfather,
Weathers Smith, emigrated from Fairfax C.H., Va., to this State about the
beginning of the present century, and settled on what is now known as
the Duncan Land, which is now owned by Cassius M. Clay.  He married Lydia,
sister of Geo. A. Smith.  She died in 1818, leaving an only son, Algernon
Sidney Smith, who was born May the 16th, 1809.  Algernon S., after his
father's death, which occurred in 1828, came into possession of 779 acres
of land on Paris and Winchester Pike near Thatcher's Mill.  He was
married Oct. 1, 1846 to Amanda F. Thomas.  The result of this union was
two sons.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith both died with cholera in 1852, within a
few day s of each other.  The younger son, Algernon Sidney, who was named
for his father, died at the age of twenty-two years, leaving a childless
widow, who now lives with her father, John W. Thomas.  The elder son,
Henry C. Smith, who is the subject of our sketch, and also his younger
brother above spoken of, were taken; after the sudden death of their
parents, by their uncle, Owen B. Thomas, and raised to maturity.  Mr.
Thomas now lives in Boone County, Missouri, having moved there in 1878.
Our subject attended school at Stony Point till [sic] he was seventeen
years of age.  He then entered Kentucky University at Lexington, where he
was a student for three years, but on account of he health failing, he
was compelled to leave the University without graduating.  He was married
on the 21st of October, 1869, to Nannie C., daughter of Harvey W. Rice,
whose father was on of the fist settlers here.  This couple are blessed
with two children, Allie Dee, who was born Jan. 26, 1873, and Henry
Stanley, born Sept. 14, 1878.  Henry C. brought his first short horns in
1870, and continued in that business till [sic] October 1876, at which
time he consolidated his herd of twenty-five head with a herd of seventy
head owned by Ed. K. Thomas, which is spoken of in another part of this
work.  This consolidation, now known as the "Glenwood Herd" and owned
by Thomas and Smith, numbers at present 120 head, and is considered one
of the best herds in the State.  Mr. SMith is one of the representative
farmers of this county, owns 250 acres of land three miles south of North
Middletown, and for the past four years has been one of the board of
directors of the Bourbon County Agricultural Society.

Smith Thomas Rice Clay
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Fayette-KY Fairfax-VA Boone-MO

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