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Smith, John Montgomery

educator, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 26, 1834, in Bedford Springs, Pa. In 1838 he moved with his parents to Wisconsin, settling in Mineral Point. He there received his education, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1862. In 1864 he was superintendent of schools, district attorney of Iowa county in 1868-70; mayor of Mineral Point in 1879, 1880 and 1885.

He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1880 and 1888; was city attorney in 1891-92; a member of the county board in 1892; presidential elector in the same year, and was also elected a member of the assembly of the Wisconsin state legislature in 1892.