Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Samuel N. Smoot

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages, 946, 947

Samuel N. Smoot, stock-dealer and farmer, was born in Mason County, Ky., December 11, 
1847, and is the youngest but one of six children, five sons and one daughter, born to 
William and Eliza (Perrine) Smoot, both natives of Mason County, Ky.  Grandfather and 
Grandmother Smoot were from Maryland, and among the early settlers of Kentucky.  The 
grandparents on the mother's side were from New Jersey, and were also early settlers 
of Kentucky.  William and Eliza (Perrine) Smoot were married in Kentucky, and there 
passed their entire lives.  He was a farmer and stock-raiser by occupation; enlisted 
in the Mexican War, but was not called out; was a Whig in his political views; and both
 he and his wife were members of the Christian Church.  He lived to be seventy-three 
years of age, and she lived to be seventy.  Samuel N. Smoot was educated to a limited 
extent in the common schools, and, at the age of nineteen, he began for himself.  
October 15, 1874, he married Miss Ella Gordon, a native of Kentucky, and this union 
resulted in the birth of one child, Anna Marie.  After living in Kentucky until 1884 
Mr. Smoot came to Lamar, and has been engaged in the real estate business until the 
present.  He owns 640 acres of land one mile south of Kenoma, Barton County, and fifteen 
acres adjoining Lamar, besides a number of lots in Lamar.  He has been raising and 
shipping stock both in Kentucky and this State.  On his farm are two springs and 
indications of lead.  Both he and wife are members of the Christian Church.  As a 
business man, Mr. Smoot has been quite successful, having made the most he has by his 
own efforts.  Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party.

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