Boswell, H. James.  American Blue Book Western Washington, Seattle, Lowman and  
Hanford Co., 1922.  p. 178.

CARL J. SMITH: IT REQUIRES more than an ordinary man to make a successful 
lawyer.  The requirements of the profession are of such character as to be 
most exacting, necessitating not only a keep mind, but a thorough 
understanding and knowledge of the fundamentals of law, and the application of 
its principles.  Of the members of the bar of Western Washington on whom I 
have commented in my work, I consider Carl J. Smith as a man well fitted for 
his profession, a man of high intellectuality and splendid ideas.  Mr. Smith 
is a native of Sweden, and was born in 1865.  He came to the United States in 
1883.  His early educational training was had in his native country, and he 
was admitted to the bar in 1888.  It was in 1905 that he located in Seattle, 
prior to which time he was engaged in his profession in Butte, Montana.  He 
does only civil practice except in instances where necessary to enter the 
criminal courts for regular clients.  In the practice of his profession, Mr. 
Smith, like the majority of successful attorneys throughout the country, 
resorts to litigation in the courts only as a last recourse.  But when 
occasion is such that legal action is imperative he does not hesitate to enter 
court, where his work is all that it should be.  While Mr. Smith believes that 
every right of a client should be protected, at the same time he is opposed to 
any effort that will obscure the justice of a case.  His contention is that 
all matters, are entitled to settlement upon merit.  A man of pleasing 
personality and a close student of human nature, he has cultivated and 
retained friendships as few men can.  The high standard which he set for 
himself in early life has won for him the respect and esteem of bench and bar, 
alike.  Mr. Smith, in 1904, married Miss Mary J. Smeeth, and the couple have 
one child, a boy.  Mr. Smith is a member of the Arctic club, I. O. O. F., 
chamber of Commerce, Municipal League, and the county and state bar 
associations.

Submitted by: Judy Bivens

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