Gen. William Rudolph SMITH^[1]

1787 - 1869  (81 years)

• Name	William Rudolph SMITH
  Prefix	Gen.
  Birth	31 Aug 1787	La Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Aug 1869	Mineral Point, Iowa, Wisconsin   [3]
  Person ID	I9497	HHDHA
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2015

  
  

  Family	Mary Hamilton VAN DYKE,   b. 7 Apr 1805, Southwest Point Garrison, Roane, Tennessee d. Aft 1880, Mineral Point, Iowa, Wisconsin (Age > 76 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1823	Huntingdon, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania   [4]
  Children	1. Rudolph Vandyke SMITH,   b. 5 Sep 1825, La Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania d. 17 Jul 1857 (Age 31 years)   2. Richard Moore SMITH,   b. 1 Oct 1829, La Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania   3. Penelope Campbell SMITH,   b. 2 Aug 1830, La Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania d. 17 Dec 1852, Sacramento, Sacramento, California (Age 22 years)   4. Letitia Nixon SMITH,   b. 5 Jan 1833, La Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania d. 4 Feb 1833, La Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania (Age 0 years)   5. John Montgomery SMITH,   b. 26 Feb 1834, Bedford Springs, Bedford, Pennsylvania d. 14 May 1903, Mineral Point, Iowa, Wisconsin (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F3101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] Rootsweb.com, (Supported by Ancestry.com). William R. studied law at the Middle Temple,London, and was admitted to the bar in Phila. in 1808. He was a Colonel of the 42nd Pa. Reserves in the war of 1812 and commanded this regiment in the movement on Canada. He was in the battle of Lundy´s Lane.He removed to Huntingdon Co. in 1809, served many terms in the legislature. Afterwards settled in Mineral Point, where he passed the remainder of his life. Here he was Adjutant General of Wisconsin in1839-52 and District Attorney of Luna County for many years; member of the Constitutional Convention; Chief Clerk of the State Senate 1849-50 and Attorney General 1856-58; President of Wisconsin Historical Society.He was a bright and active Freemason; Past Master of the Mineral Point Lodge of Wisconsin. He was a voluminous writer and many of his works have been published. He had a cultivated poetical taste and much of his writing in verse is preserved and prized by his descendants.He was an attorney-at-law and private secretary to his father at the time he was commissioner under the Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain.Source: Email from Richard Reinhold (RSR), 3/21/04. His sources were--Newspaper article written by William Armstrong Crozier, titled Genealogy and Heraldry, specially compiled for the Phila. Times, given toRSR by his Aunt, Margaret Reinhold, and Michael Hillegas and his Descendants by Emma St. ClairWhitney,Pottsville,1891, given to RSR by Margaret Gwin Reinhold. [S49] LDS Family Search Family Tree, (https://familysearch.org/tree). [S39] Findagrave.com, (www.findagrave.com). William Randolph Smith Birth: unknown Death: Aug. 27, 1868 Aged 81Y Inscription:William R. SmithAged 81Y [S49] LDS Family Search Family Tree, (https://familysearch.org/tree). William married 1) Eliza Anthony 16 Mar 1809 in Philadelphia.