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Smith, William Hazlitt, was born in Hector, September 24, 1853, a son of Jeremy Smith. He prepared for college
at Starkey Seminary and entered Cornell University in the fall of 1869, graduating in June, 1873 with the degree
of A. B. He taught Latin and Greek one year in Ithaca Academy, and then entered the law office of King & Montgomery
at Ithaca, was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1876 and formed a partnership January 1, 1877, with his brother
Simeon, which existed until May, 1885. He then opened an office for himself and has since been alone, doing a general
practice, but making a specialty of real estate transactions. He is a Democrat, and a member of Fidelity Lodge
F. & A. M., and also of the R. A. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In 1881 he married Celia Mattison
of this county, and they have one daughter. Mrs. Smith is recently the inventor and patentee of the cloth tabby
cat and other animals, which have been on the market for the past two years and have been very popular.
From:
Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York
Including a History of Cornell University
Edited by: John H. Selkreg
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1894
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