Carl H. Smith
Carl H. Smith, one of the leading members of the Jefferson County bar, who has been a resident of Steubenville, O., since November 1, 1901, was born in East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1876. At the age of four years he came with his parents to Jefferson County, Ohio, and located on a farm in Knox Township. After obtaining a primary education in the local schools he was graduated, in 1896, from the Empire High School. He then entered Westminister College, from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1900, after which he was for one year an instructor in the college at Knoxville, Tenn. His knowledge of law was obtained in the office of E. E. Erskine and the Law Department of the Western Reserve College at Cleveland, where he spent one year, in 1903 being admitted to the bar. He immediately located at Steubenville for the practice of his profession, and in January, 1906, formed a partnership with E. E. Erskine, with whom he has since practiced in the various courts of the state and in the federal courts. He is a member of the Jefferson County and Ohio State Bar Associations, a director in the Herald Publishing Company, vice president of the Means Foundry & Machine Company and vice president and trustee of the Chamber of Commerce of Steubeuville. Mr. Smith holds membership in the United Presbyterian Church, being superintendent of the Sabbath School. His fraternal affiliations are with the "Eagles" and Masonic order, he having advanced as far as the Chapter and taken the eighteenth degree, Scottish Rite. Mr. Smith was married January 9, 1907, to Bessie C. Crowther, who died about eighteen months later, leaving an infant daughter, Bessie Crowther Smith.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910