FULTON COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed for use by Ohio Biographies Project
by Janet Wilkinson Schwartz (wilkinschw@aol.com)
December 2002
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History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio.  Lewis Cass Alrich, ed.  Syracuse,
 NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888.

SMITH, JOHN JR., Gorham, Fayette, p.o., an early settler in Chesterfield, who 
came there in 1849, was born in Berne, Switzerland, in 1815, and was a son of 
JOHN and ROSINE (BROKER) SMITH, who emigrated to America in 1832, and settled in Detroit, Mich., and became engaged in farming.  They had four sons and three 
daughters.  

JOHN Jr. was married in 1840 to ELIZABETH PEIREN.  She was born in Berne, 
Switzerland.  They have a family of four children: JACOB P., ALONZO, ELIZABETH 
and MARY.  JOHN Jr. settled in Chesterfield township, Fulton county, in 1849, 
and purchased a farm which he sold in 1875, and settled in Gorham township, 
where he purchased a farm of 160 acres, for which he paid $8,800.  He retired 
from active life in 1884, and now resides with his son at Handy Corners.  One of his sons, JOHN, enlisted in December, 1861, in Co. A, 67th Ohio Regiment, and 
lost his life at Fort Waggoner, with others of his company.