This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Soiner Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3943 Message Board Post: September 5, 1905 Seattle Post Intelligencer Addison Smith Dead. Pioneer Passes Away Just Before Daughter Reaches His Bedside. Addison Smith, at one time a leading business man among the pioneers who built up Seattle, died last night at his home 506 Eleventh Avenue North, from a complication of kidney and heart trouble which has rendered him helpless for about three weeks. For a considerably longer time he had complained that he was not as well as usual but had kept at his work as bailiff in Judge Albertson’s department of the superior court until the close of the last term. A sad thing about the death was the fact that it happened just as the steamer Oregon reached Seattle, bringing from Nome Mrs. N. B. Soiner, the only surviving daughter of the deceased, returning from the north with her husband, who is cashier of the Union Savings and Trust Company of this city. Another daughter, Miss Amy Smith who was very popular in social circles, died several years ago. Mr. Smith leaves a widow, who has been for a long time an invalid. Addison Smith came to Seattle from Deer Lodge Montana about twenty years ago and founded the grocery firm of Smith & Foster, which for many years conducted a store on the southeast corner of First Avenue and Madison Street. When he retired from business he was appointed assistant warden at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, a position which he held for six years. At the time of his death he was one of the bailiffs under Judge Albertson.