"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 348

BARTHOLOMEW SMITH, farmer, was born in Owen County, Ind., Feburary 5,
1837, and is the eldest of seven children born to Marcus M. and Malinda (Pierson)
Smith, the former of whom was a native of Muskingum County, Ohio, and the latter
of Bourbon County, Ky.  They were of English and Irish descent respectively.  Mar-
cus M. Smith received only a very limited education in youth, at the rude log school-
housed of the Indiana frontier;  but by his own exertions, and by the light of a shell-
bark fire afterward acquired a fair, practical business education and became of the
best historians in the country.  After his father's death, in the fall of 1824, the family
removed to Owen County, Ind., and settled on some 600 acres of land on the White
River, which his father had entered some years before.  Here young Marcus learned
the miller's trade, which he followed for several years, and here he was afterward
married.  Later he bought a farm in Owen County, where he still resides, and is
engaged in farming and stock-raising.  Both himself and wife are members of the
Christian Church, in which church he has been a minister for more than thirty years.
The father of Mrs. Malinda Smith, Bartholomew Pierson, served under Gen. William
H. Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe and in that Genreal's other campaigns against 
the Indians, and his father, Shadrach Pierson, was a veteran of the Revolutionary
war, having served seven years, or through the entire struggle.  Bartholomew Smith
received such an education in youth as could be obtained at the primitive log school-
houses of the frontier, and was employed on his father's farm until he was twenty-
one years old.  He was then employed as a salesman for the Turner Scale Company
for about two years.  In September, 1861, he enlisted in the Tenth Indiana Battery,
and served with the same in all its marches and engagements until the close of the war,
and was mustered out at Indianapolis in June, 1865.  He participated in the battles
of Stone River, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and the Atlanta
campaign, as well as many other lesser engagements.  At Dallas, Ga., he was severely
injured by the recoil of a piece of artillery, resulting in partial paralysis.  For two
years after his return from the army, he was engaged in railroading.  He then bought
a farm in Ray Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where he resided until October, 1876,
when he sold and bought another in Gregg Township, where he still resides.  He was
married, September 21, 1861, to Miss Mary J. Hancock, a native of Franklin County,
Ky.  Five children, two sons and three daughters, have blessed their union, all of whom
are yet living.  Mr. Smith is a member of Eminence Lodge, No. 440, A., F. & A. M.,
and is also a member of the G. A. R.  In politics, he is a Republican, and is a respected
citizen of Gregg Township.

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