IN MEMORIAM 



Henry C. Smith was born in Canton, Illinois, March 7, 

 1856. Received his schooling mostly thjre and in March, 1869, 

 removed with his father to Richardson county, Nebraska, where 

 he assisted his father, the latter having established an agricul- 

 tural implement warehouse, etc., in Falls City, the first in the 

 county. Also ran a real estate agency in connection with which 

 he carried on a farm. 



Mr. Smith was one of the most widely known business men 

 of Falls City and had occupied the same oflBce continuously for 

 a longer term than any other business man in the city and was 

 probably longer in business there than any other person, having 

 established a real estate office in 1879. 



He was one of the first in Richardson county to plant or- 

 chards on a commercial scale. The seventy-acre orchard in 

 Barada township has been a heavy producer and since they have 

 taken to spraying and giving the soil the regular summer cul- 

 tivation, in which he also w^as the pioneer for this county, that 

 orchard has produced fruit of unexcelled quality and has gained 

 a reputation that is widely extended in the larger markets. His 

 Nemaha county farm and also the one in Pawnee county have 

 both been largely set to apples and other fruits, and are com 

 ing into productive bearing. His theory always was that every 

 growing apple tree he owned added a dollar every year to the 

 value of his estate^ He was laughed at some by his neighbors 

 in the years of poor fruit crops, but that made no difference. 

 He was confident of the outcome, and several times his judg- 

 ment has been vindicated by apple crops that were worth more 

 than the value of the land. 



Mr. Smith became a life member of the State Horticultural 

 Society in 1896. 



He was stricken with paralysis and passed away at the 

 Union Hotel in Falls City, where he had lived for a number of 

 years. Saturday, October 21, 1911. 



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