ANDREW J. SMITH

From the 1887 History of Vernon County, Missouri, p. 690:

Andrew J. Smith

(Prosecuting Attorney of Vernon County, Nevada).

   A. J. Smith, a native of Fayette county, Ala., and now one of the rising young attorneys of this county, was born May 6, 1858.  He comes of South Carolina parentage, in which State both his father and mother were born.  James M. Smith, his father, is a farmer by calling, and the head of a family of eight children.  His wife's maiden name was Lucretia Hamby.  After leaving Alabama they moved to Illinois and are now residents of that Sate.  There young Andrew, the sixth child and fifth son, principally passed his youthful days on a farm, finally attaining to the height of his ambition as a school teacher, his term as an instructor lasting but a short time, however.  Subsequently he attended Shurtleff College at Upper Alton, Ill., and afterwards was a student at the Missouri State University at Columbia, from the law department of which institution he graduated in 1881.  Then he became located in Nevada and has since been actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession.  Well educated and endowed by nature with the qualities necessary to success, his future as a member of the legal fraternity is unquestioned.  In 1886 he was chosen as the Democratic nominee for the position of prosecuting attorney of Vernon county, and was elected by a large majority.

[Transcribed by Marty Patton]

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