Lyman Miller Smith

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Lyman Miller Smith

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Among those whose abilities and integrity class them with the leading lawyers of the Morris county bar is Lyman Miller SMITH. He is the grandson of Miller and Mary B. (TROWBRIDGE) SMITH, and the son of Ford D. SMITH, born in Dover, Morris county, New Jersey, April 29, 1845, died June 18, 1909. He received his education at Fort Edward Institute, and then read law in the office of Lyman A. CHANDLER, in Morristown, and Martin SHALLENBERGER, Stark county, Illinois. He was engaged in the Jersey bar, a practice with which he was identified until his death. For a returned to Dover, New Jersey, and was admitted to practice at the New practice of law in the State of Illinois from 1867 to 1874, and in latter year short term he had an office in Paterson, New Jersey. During his early manhood he was a member of the Democratic party, but in 1896 affiliated with the Republican party, on account of the silver issue advanced by Bryanism. He was a member of the assembly of 1891-92, and at that time the race track question was taken up. He voted against it, as also against the coal combine. He served as counsel for the city of Dover. In matters of religion he was associated with the Presbyterian church. Mr. SMITH married, July 9, 1869, Martha, daughter of James FOWLER, of Essex county, New York. They had children:

Howard, died at the age of eleven years;
Mamie, died at the same age;
Olivia, married Dr. William E. DERRY, a prominent physician of Dover, New Jersey;
Clara E.;
Lyman Miller.

Lyman Miller SMITH was born in Dover, Morris county, New Jersey, June 29, 1877. He was the recipient of a very fine education attending the public schools of Dover until he was graduated from the high school in 1894. He then matriculated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1898. He then took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey at the June term of 1901. From June, 1901, until January, 1904, he was assistant to his father in the law office of the latter in Dover, and he then entered the employ of Paul GUENTHER, a prominent manufacturer of hosiery, and was identified with this branch of industry until the death of his father. He then returned to his legal practice with which he has been identified since that time. He is identified with a number of other enterprises, and has been honored with official position in some of them. He is secretary of the Dover Building and Loan Association , and a member of the Morris County Bar Association. The business offices of Mr. SMITH are at No. 5 West Blackwell street. Mr. SMITH has always given his allegiance to the Republican party, and he is associated with the Presbyterian church. His fraternal connection is as follows: Dover Lodge, No. 782, B.P.O.E., of which he was a charter member and the first esquire; Acacia Lodge, No. 20, F. and A. M., of which he was a junior warden during the year 1913; Rho Chapter of the Chi Psi Fraternity; Morris Council, No. 541, R. A. He is a trustee of the Arcanum Home Association of Dover, New Jersey, which has in charge the provision and maintenance for Morris Council, No. 541. While Mr. SMITH has never held public office, he manifests a keen interest in any independent movement within party lines, which has for its object the betterment of political conditions.

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).