Sixth Generation

1539. Oliver SMITH²¹⁸ was born on 23 May 1830 in Connecticut.^{26,207,217,218} He died about 1907.²¹⁷ educated at Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio. They reside now in Dorset, Ohio. He owns mills there and at Jefferson, and consider their home in Ashtabula, though they do not remain there all the time. He was the seventh son in succession, and has been commonly called "Doctor" or "Doc" by his intimate friends.
He received a common school education with one or two years at the academy at Kingsville, Ohio.
At the age of seventeen he went to Philadelphia, and there engaged in same business in which his older brothers were interested, but returned home in a few years and went into the
lumber business, and for thirty years was a manufacturer and an extensive dealer in lumber and owner of many mills in Ashtabula Co., Ohio

Oliver SMITH and Mary Oriette CROSBY were married on 31 Aug 1856.^217,218 Mary Oriette CROSBY was born on 5 Aug 1836.²¹⁸ She died about 1900. Oliver SMITH and Mary Oriette CROSBY had the following children:

2946	i.	Oliver Conrad SMITH218 was born on 31 Jul 1857.218 at the age of eleven was crippled for life
2947	ii.	Mabel Oriette SMITH was born on 11 May 1868.218