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

Hugh SMITH, merchant, Peotone; general merchant, of the firm of SCHROEDER, SMITH & COLLINS; 
born in Johnstone, Scotland, Aug. 28, 1839, living there until 15 years of age; he emigrated 
with his parents to America in 1855; removing to Vermont, he lived seven years and followed 
farming; then to Saxonville, Mass., a short time, where he enlisted in August, 1862, in the 
33d Mass. V. I., remaining with his regiment until the close of the war; he was in many 
severe battles, among them Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in the East; Look-out Mountain, 
Missionary Ridge, Resaca and Dallas with the Western army, under HOOKER; at the battle of 
Dallas, being severely wounded, he was granted a furlough, and, when sufficiently recovered, 
he again joined his regiment, and was with SHERMAN's army on its match to the sea, and until 
the close of the war, when, being mustered out of service, he came West and located upon a 
farm in Will Co., IL, for six years; then to Massachusetts one year; then returning to Peotone 
he engaged in the mercantile business, which he has since followed. He married June 1866, 
Amelia GILKERSON; she was born in Vermont; they are the parents of three children now living, 
viz., Elmer T., Jessie A. and Amelia B.