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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Charles C. SMITH, farm and stock, Sec. 20; P. O. Channahon; the subject of this sketch was 
born in Jefferson Co., East Tenn., May 2, 1818. He married Miss Corinza BURR July 24, 1850; 
she was born in Tippecanoe Co., Ind., June 19, 1831; they had ten children, nine living, 
viz., Barton, Emma Jane, William T. Ella May, Charles W., Lucy M., Corinza A., Sarah E. and 
Floyd H; Edgar F. died Sept. 5, 1873. He lived in Tennessee ten years, when his parents 
moved to Fountain Co., Ind., and engaged in farming; remained until 1835; they then moved 
to Joliet, IL, where they carried on a general teaming business until 1840; he then followed 
peddling until 1847, when he came to his present place and followed stock-raising during the 
summer, and acted as buyer for the American Fur Company during the winters until 1852, when 
he turned his entire attention to his farming and stock interests; his business, though 
starting in a very small way, has grown to enormous proportions, and he is at present farming 
over 3,000 acres; he is also very largely interested in stock-raising; during the past year, 
he has bought an interest in a creamery at Channahon, IL, since which time he has added a 
dairy of 150 cows to his farming and stock business. He has been Road Commissioner some five 
years, and was Supervisor four years, one year receiving the unanimous vote. His father, 
Barton SMITH, continued his residence in Joliet until he died in September 1862; his mother, 
Mrs. Fatha SMITH, died in 1875. Mr. SMITH practiced as a veterinary surgeon in Joliet, and 
was Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate.