Emery Smith
Emery Smith was born in Delaware County, Ohio, April 9, 1838. and in 1844 removed to Canaan Township, of this county, where he received the benefit of a common school education. In 1856-57, he attended Oberlin College; thence, in 1858, he went to the Cleveland Law College, graduating in the spring of 1860, and was immediately admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, at Columbus. On the 16th of August, 1860, he came to London, and formed a law partnership with Col. J. C. McCloud, which lasted about seven years, when it was dissolved and he continued alone. He subsequently was in partnership with John J. Bell, B. H. Lewis and D. C. Badger, respectively, but since the dissolution of the last partnership, has practiced alone. He was married to Sarah McClimans, daughter of James and Margaret McClimans, of Madison County. She lived but a few months after her marriage, and he was subsequently united to Frances McClimans. a sister of his first wife, who has borne him one son, Forest. Politically, Mr. Smith is a Republican, and in 1861 enlisted in Company C, Seventeenth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the three months' service. After the expiration of that term, he was appointed Deputy Provost Marshal of the Seventh District, which he held until the close of the war. He has been Mayor of London one term, and is a well-read lawyer, who obtains a fair share of the law business of Madison County.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]