Go to the NYS Library - Digital Collections.http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/scandocs/ Search for "Portrait and Biographical Record" - it features a slew of OC residents and in several volumes divided into 3 sections each, all download-able. The Index is inadequate; it only lists the names of the people who head the articles, not the myriad collateral people mentioned. Use digital searching for them. (By doing so, I discovered that my my G3GF, Joseph R Frantz, was a grocer in Frantzdale, divided by the border of Sullivan & Ulster Counties, now called Spring Glen.) Other books of historic & genealogical interest are downlad-able there, too. You may also find other helpful Orange County histories online at digital repositories like InternetArchive, GoogleBooks, and Cornell's New York State Historical Literature Collection, among others. OC church histories may have something about your Smith. Inquiry at the OC Genealogical Society to see if they have something for you or know where you could find the info. Joseph Smith isn't an easy name to pursue, especially with that overshadowingly famous  JS out there - it's even worse than John Johnson - and not Sir William's son! The best, Julia --- On Fri, 6/11/10, Dave & Liz DuBois <ddubois@sinclair.net> wrote: ... "prominent citizen of Orange County".  Do your books show him at all? Liz