Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 531.
 
DR. J. N. SMITH

     Is prominent among the medical profession of the Willamette valley, and is
a resident of Salem.  He is a native of Washington, Washington county, Iowa,
born in 1852.  His father, I. N. Smith, was a native of Kentucky, and emigrated
to Iowa in 1836, then called the Northwest Territory, the Indians still being in
possession of the country.  Mr. Smith was one of the pioneers to drive out the
Indians and to clear up the country and fit it for occupancy.
     The subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools of Washington
and passed his boyhood with his parents upon the farm.  He also taught school in
Washington county, and while teaching at Westchester in 1872, he began the study
of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Jesse Hill, and continued studying
and teaching until 1874, when, with his parents, he came to Oregon, and his
father settled near Peoria, Linn county.  Here he still resides at the age of
eighty years, and is in the enjoyment of every faculty and of good health.
     On his arrival in Oregon, J. N. Smith went to the Warm Spring Indian
reservation, taught the Indian school and continued the study of medicine under
Dr. John Nicklin, who was located at the reservation.  After two years of study,
he attended lectures at the medical department of Willamette University, and
began practice at Buena Vista, Polk county, returning for a second course in the
fall of 1880.  He graduated from the medical department of the college in the
spring of 1881.  He then located at Dallas, Polk county, and practiced until the
summer of 1883, when he settled at Salem, and has since followed his profession.
He continued alone until May 1, 1891, when he entered into partnership with Dr.
W. H. Byrd, whose biography elsewhere appears.
     Dr. Smith was married at Dallas in 1883, to Miss Mattie Ellis, a native of
Iowa, and the union has been blessed with one child.
     Dr. Smith is a member of the A.O.U.W.  He has not engaged in politics, nor
in other interests outside his profession, as his love for that has held him
constant in his attendance upon the sick and in ameliorating the affliction of
the sorrowing.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2005 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.