Per the Wednesday October 2, 1901 issue of the Rochester NY Chronicle: "A rare character passed on in the death of Dr. George W. Smith. Dr. George W. Smith, whose death at the Hahnemann Hospital in Rochester, to which he went from his home in Livonia last Thursday, was noticed in Tuesday's Democrat and Chronicle [1 Oct], was born in Livonia May 16, l815 the son of Colonel George and Sally Woodruff Smith, both born in New England of English ancestry. Colonel Smith went to Livonia in 1801, was a carpenter and bridge builder, built the bridge over the Genesee River at Avon that bore the strain of immense travel on the old state road for over fifty years, and was also a land surveyor whose field notes are still accurate authority. He gave the town of Livonia its name, and was its supervisor in 1820.
"George W. Smith was raised a farmer, an athletic boy over six feet tall, a surprising worker, raking and binding wheat after two cradlers when it was an excellent man who could rake and bind after one cradler. George received an academic education and was a fellow student with General Joseph Hawley, of Connecticut, at Hamilton College, where both were graduated in the forties.
"After teaching in an academy in Livonia for a while, Mr. Smith adopted the healing art, attended a medical college in New York City, where he was regularly graduated. He had been for several years practicing animal magnetism, and his medical studies only confirmed his confidence in magnetic treatment in which he was very successful, and became very eminent, numbering among his patrons such men as John C. Havemeyer, Abram S. Hewitt, Washington Roebling, and Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Smith continued in practice in New York City till 1882, with increasing demands on his time and skill. In 1881 he married Miss Marie Buck of New Milford, Connecticut, an invalid patient whose ailments compelled him to leave the city and give up his practice, and to whose care he gave, with unsurpassed tenderness and devotion, the balance of his life. Dr. Smith's mind was, like his body, of rare strength and fiber, with a memory of inexorable grip.
"He was the best linguist in his class, recalling Latin and Greek roots, and repeating the classics, and long quotations from the poets, all through and to very near the end of his long life. His nature was buoyant, his integrity impregnable, his ideals high, his life spotless. Dr. Smith leaves a widow in Livonia, and of his own family there is but one survivor, his brother, Hon. Lewis E Smith, of Rochester, father of Supervisor George H. Smith."
"George W. Smith was raised a farmer, an athletic boy over six feet tall, a surprising worker, raking and binding wheat after two cradlers when it was an excellent man who could rake and bind after one cradler. George received an academic education and was a fellow student with General Joseph Hawley, of Connecticut, at Hamilton College, where both were graduated in the forties.
"After teaching in an academy in Livonia for a while, Mr. Smith adopted the healing art, attended a medical college in New York City, where he was regularly graduated. He had been for several years practicing animal magnetism, and his medical studies only confirmed his confidence in magnetic treatment in which he was very successful, and became very eminent, numbering among his patrons such men as John C. Havemeyer, Abram S. Hewitt, Washington Roebling, and Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Smith continued in practice in New York City till 1882, with increasing demands on his time and skill. In 1881 he married Miss Marie Buck of New Milford, Connecticut, an invalid patient whose ailments compelled him to leave the city and give up his practice, and to whose care he gave, with unsurpassed tenderness and devotion, the balance of his life. Dr. Smith's mind was, like his body, of rare strength and fiber, with a memory of inexorable grip.
"He was the best linguist in his class, recalling Latin and Greek roots, and repeating the classics, and long quotations from the poets, all through and to very near the end of his long life. His nature was buoyant, his integrity impregnable, his ideals high, his life spotless. Dr. Smith leaves a widow in Livonia, and of his own family there is but one survivor, his brother, Hon. Lewis E Smith, of Rochester, father of Supervisor George H. Smith."
Per the Wednesday October 2, 1901 issue of the Rochester NY Chronicle: "A rare character passed on in the death of Dr. George W. Smith. Dr. George W. Smith, whose death at the Hahnemann Hospital in Rochester, to which he went from his home in Livonia last Thursday, was noticed in Tuesday's Democrat and Chronicle [1 Oct], was born in Livonia May 16, l815 the son of Colonel George and Sally Woodruff Smith, both born in New England of English ancestry. Colonel Smith went to Livonia in 1801, was a carpenter and bridge builder, built the bridge over the Genesee River at Avon that bore the strain of immense travel on the old state road for over fifty years, and was also a land surveyor whose field notes are still accurate authority. He gave the town of Livonia its name, and was its supervisor in 1820.
"George W. Smith was raised a farmer, an athletic boy over six feet tall, a surprising worker, raking and binding wheat after two cradlers when it was an excellent man who could rake and bind after one cradler. George received an academic education and was a fellow student with General Joseph Hawley, of Connecticut, at Hamilton College, where both were graduated in the forties.
"After teaching in an academy in Livonia for a while, Mr. Smith adopted the healing art, attended a medical college in New York City, where he was regularly graduated. He had been for several years practicing animal magnetism, and his medical studies only confirmed his confidence in magnetic treatment in which he was very successful, and became very eminent, numbering among his patrons such men as John C. Havemeyer, Abram S. Hewitt, Washington Roebling, and Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Smith continued in practice in New York City till 1882, with increasing demands on his time and skill. In 1881 he married Miss Marie Buck of New Milford, Connecticut, an invalid patient whose ailments compelled him to leave the city and give up his practice, and to whose care he gave, with unsurpassed tenderness and devotion, the balance of his life. Dr. Smith's mind was, like his body, of rare strength and fiber, with a memory of inexorable grip.
"He was the best linguist in his class, recalling Latin and Greek roots, and repeating the classics, and long quotations from the poets, all through and to very near the end of his long life. His nature was buoyant, his integrity impregnable, his ideals high, his life spotless. Dr. Smith leaves a widow in Livonia, and of his own family there is but one survivor, his brother, Hon. Lewis E Smith, of Rochester, father of Supervisor George H. Smith."
"George W. Smith was raised a farmer, an athletic boy over six feet tall, a surprising worker, raking and binding wheat after two cradlers when it was an excellent man who could rake and bind after one cradler. George received an academic education and was a fellow student with General Joseph Hawley, of Connecticut, at Hamilton College, where both were graduated in the forties.
"After teaching in an academy in Livonia for a while, Mr. Smith adopted the healing art, attended a medical college in New York City, where he was regularly graduated. He had been for several years practicing animal magnetism, and his medical studies only confirmed his confidence in magnetic treatment in which he was very successful, and became very eminent, numbering among his patrons such men as John C. Havemeyer, Abram S. Hewitt, Washington Roebling, and Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Smith continued in practice in New York City till 1882, with increasing demands on his time and skill. In 1881 he married Miss Marie Buck of New Milford, Connecticut, an invalid patient whose ailments compelled him to leave the city and give up his practice, and to whose care he gave, with unsurpassed tenderness and devotion, the balance of his life. Dr. Smith's mind was, like his body, of rare strength and fiber, with a memory of inexorable grip.
"He was the best linguist in his class, recalling Latin and Greek roots, and repeating the classics, and long quotations from the poets, all through and to very near the end of his long life. His nature was buoyant, his integrity impregnable, his ideals high, his life spotless. Dr. Smith leaves a widow in Livonia, and of his own family there is but one survivor, his brother, Hon. Lewis E Smith, of Rochester, father of Supervisor George H. Smith."
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