“The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1880.

Township:  Shields  

J. C. SMITH,  merchant and Postmaster, Richwood; born in County 
Leitrim, Ireland, 1827; came to America in 1842, locating in Orange 
Co., N.Y., where he worked as a farm hand, attending school in the 
winter season; in 1849, he joined his father in Shields; lived here a short 
time, then removing, resided three or four years in Chester, going then to 
Hancock Co., Ill., where he remained until 1861, when he returned, and 
has since lived in Richwood; he clerked in the store of  F. Mertz until 
1863, when he built his large store, where he carries a stock of anything 
and everything to meet a general trade - dry goods, groceries, hardware, 
boots and shoes, clothing, drugs and medicines, notions, etc.  A 
Democrat in politics; he was appointed Postmaster about 1864, and has 
been Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace.  He married Miss Margaret 
McGuire, of New York City, and with her is an attendant of the Catholic 
Church.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)