Short Biography of David T. Smith

DAVID T. SMITH, attorney at law and justice of the peace, Bluffton, was born in Wayne County, this State, about 1830, and moved to Bluffton about 1857, when there were in the neighborhood of half a dozen other lawyers in the place. For one term he filled the position of district attorney of the Common Pleas Court, being elected to that office just previous to the war. In 1879 he was elected mayor of Bluffton, and served in that capacity one term of two years. At the next election thereafter he was chosen to his present office, to which he was re-elected in 1885. He is also secretary of the Short-horn Breeders' Association. Office in the Williamson Block.

Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Bluffton; Member of the Knights of Pythias, Bluffton Lodge, No. 92.

Source: "Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana : containing portraits of all the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with accompanying biographies of each ; a condensed history of the state of Indiana, portraits and biographies of some of the prominent men of the state, engravings of prominent citizens in Adams and Wells counties, with personal histories of many of the leading families, and a concise history of the counties and their cities and villages." ¹³¹⁰