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Allan Smith

Boone County

ALLEN SMITH was born in East Shoreham, Vermont, June 30, 1838, and died at Berkeley, California, February 19, 1915. His body was cremated and the ashes sent to Vermont and strewn on the grave of his mother, according to his request. Mr. Smith came to Boone, Iowa, in 1870 and became part owner there of the largest flouring mill in central Iowa. This burned in 1899. He went to California in 1911, making his home with his children. He was an active member of the board of education in Boone, and in 1889 was elected representative and served in the Twenty-third General Assembly.

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