Fresno County Biographies

George A. Smith

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, June, 2007

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	George A. Smith, a grocer of Fresno, was born in Georgia in 
1860. His father was a planter by trade, and moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, in 
1864, and there bought 440 acres of land, where he carried on general farming 
and stock-raising. Young Smith was  educated at Jacksonville, (Illinois) 
Business College, after which he clerked in a grocery store and gathered further 
knowledge for his later business enterprise. In 1883 he came to California, 
settling on King's River, where he engaged in the breeding of trotting horses 
with D. J. McConnell, an old resident of that locality. They continued in 
business about two years, when Mr. Smith sold his interest and came to Fresno, 
and for two years acted as clerk for W. T. Riggs in his grocery store on 
Mariposa Street. In 1888 he bought out Mr. Riggs, and after about one year sold 
the stock to Messrs. McConnell & Hague. After a few months Mr. Smith bought the 
stock and good-will of Messrs. King, Harris, & Struder, at 1213 and 1215 K 
Street where he continues to carry on a successful business, keeping a full line 
of groceries, provisions and tinware. Mr. Smith was married in Fresno in 
October, 1889, to Miss Alice Daley, a daughter of Judge Daley, a former Judge of 
Mariposa County. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, James Daley, born January 7, 
1891. 

Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the County of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, pp. 477-478.