This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1166 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 896. LANCASTER WILLIAM SMITH, (deceased), was born in England in 1828. Came to Grant Co. in 1852, and located four miles west of Lancaster; purchased and moved on the homestead, where his widow and family now live, in 1865. He died in 1868. He always followed farming, and built around him a large property, which he made by hard work and economy; was an exemplary and honest man, and his loss was not only felt by the family, but the community at large. The farm consists of 240 acres, beautifully located one and one-half miles from Lancaster, with the best of improvements. The family consists of four sons and two daughters. Charles and James remain at home working the farm and raising and fattening stock in partnership. They are good business men, both unmarried. William Smith was a prominent member of the A., F. & A. M. [I am not related to this family. I'm just posting this as a service and hope it helps!]