Sacramento County
Biographies
LOYAL EDGAR SMITH
L.E.
SMITH, of the firm of Weber & Co., is a native of New York State and was
born in the city of Albany, September 13, 1850. His parents, L. T. Smith and M.
L. Smith, are both residents of this city. His father started for the Pacific
coast in 1859, and upon reaching Aspinwall found there was no connecting line.
He returned to New York and started again, coming round the Horn. In 1861 his
wife and family followed him to the Golden State and came to Sacramento. The
subject of this sketch received his education in this city, graduating from the
high school in 1867, Prof. Templeton, principal. He learned the trade of
plasterer, and after following his trade one year, he entered college, where he
spent a year, and then resumed his trade until 1874, when he entered the book
and stationery store of A. S. Hopkins. He was afterward clerk for the Reed
Quicksilver Mining Company on the Coast Range for five years. He then returned
to Sacramento and entered the employ of the old-established firm of W. R.
Strong & Co., and held the position of salesman for five years, when he
resigned to engage in business for himself, and formed a partnership with Mr.
Weber, under the firm name of Weber & Co. Mr. Smith belongs to the I. O. O.
F. and to the American Legion of Honor. He was married December 31, 1870, to
Miss Emma Horner of Terre Haute, Indiana. They have five children, viz.:
Gertie, Howard, Arthur, Clara and Frank.
Transcribed by Vicky
Walker, 12/07/07.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Page 782.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Vicky Walker.