Newton Co., In Biography


   SHELDEN SMITH a native of Allen County, Indiana, was born January 
17, 1851, and is one of nine children of Charles H. and Margarette 
(Driscoll) Smith, the latter a native of Ireland, the former of 
Connecticut, from which State he came when quite young with his 
parents, to Huron County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood.  He then 
went to Allen County, where he married and still lives on a farm. 
Shelden received his education in the common schools of his native 
county, remaining at home until twenty-one, when, in 1872, he came 
to Beaver Township, Newton County, and located on a farm of 120 acres 
belonging to his father, upon which he still lives.  He also owns, 
with his brother, a farm of eighty acres in Section 35.  Mr. Smith 
was married in March, 1875, to Louie E. Smith, of Ohio, daughter of 
N. G. and Elizabeth (Stephens) Smith.  They have four children--
George A., Amelia A., Joyce C. and Margarette.  He is a Catholic in 
religion.  In politics, he is a Greenbacker, and though a recent 
settler, a prominent man in his township.  

Beaver Township, Newton County.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper and Newton Counties, 1883. 

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