Charles A. Smith was born around 1827 in Rhode Island to Rufus Clark Smith and Sally Northrup. His father was a farmer who owned $200 of real estate in 1850. Smith eventually moved to Lebanon, Ohio, and by 1850, he was serving as the town’s deputy sheriff. He married Rebecca Josephine Dey in Warren County, Ohio, on June 1, 1854, and they had at least five children: Wilfred, born around 1855; Alfred, born around 1858; Fanny, born around 1860; Bertha, born around 1863; and Robert, born around 1871. By 1860, Smith was working as a “Horticulturist,” and he owned $2,000 of real estate and $10,000 of personal property. A decade later, he was a banker, and he owned $27,000 of real estate and $11,000 of personal property. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, sometime in the 1870s, and he died on March 1, 1883.

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