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Transcribed from "History of North Washington, an illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.

     JOHN SMITH is a resident of Leavenworth, who came here in 1892, being in the employ of the Great Northern railway. Since coming, he entered in business and for a decade or more he has identified himself with the interests of this city and has shown himself to be a broad minded and progressive man.
     Mr. Smith is affiliated with the B. P. O. E., Spokane lodge, number twenty, and with the I. 0. 0. F., lodge number eighty-one, in Reeds Landing. He has always taken an active interest in fraternal matters and has worked faithfully for the interests of the various lodges to which he belongs. In political matters, he has always espoused the cause of the Democratic party and has shown himself a force in this field.
     He is a man well acquainted with the issues of the day and while a stanch Democrat, manifests an independence in thought and action which characterizes him as a man of substantiality. In the progress of the community and in the improvement of the same, he has ever taken an interest and his voice is always on the side of better roads, more substantial improvements, better educational facilities and progress in general.