Sacramento County
Biographies
ALEXANDER H. SMITH
ALEXANDER H. SMITH.--How Americans have materially advanced the science of dentistry is well illustrated in the progressive operations of Alexander H. Smith, the wide-awake and popular proprietor of the Great Western Dental Laboratory. He was born at Sacramento on August 31, 1892, the son of Alexander R. and Teckla (Hanson) Smith, and often heard his father tell how he came here early in the sixties. Mrs. Smith was a native of Sweden, and came with a sister; and our subject's parents were married at Sacramento. Alexander R. Smith was with the Southern Pacific for forty-nine years; and the worthy couple are at last enjoying a deserved retirement, and in November, 1922, he was pensioned.
Alexander Smith attended both the grammar and the high school, and at the early age of fourteen he took up the prosthetic end of dentistry. In 1917, the Great Western Dental Laboratory was formed by Mr. Smith and a partner, E. T. Griffing. The laboratory employs eight men, and is rated among the best in the dentist field in Northern California. In January, 1923, Mr. Smith bought Mr. Griffing's interest and is now sole owner of the Great Western Dental Laboratory.
An exemplary patriot, Mr. Smith enlisted in the United States Navy for the World War in January, 1918, and saw one and one-half years of actual service, and now belongs to the American Legion. A brother, Wallfred R. Smith, was in the aerial service, and died from pneumonia. In October, 1919, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Mary J. Stranmau, a native daughter of Sacramento; and they have one child, Alexander H., Jr.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 752. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.