An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 345-346
	
	
	EVERETT SMITH, of Seattle, Washington, was born in the little town of Derby,
New Haven county, Connecticut, April 9, 1862. His progenitor emigrant, John
Smith, was a native of England, but removed to America about 1687, settling at
Milford, Connecticut, descendants subsequently scattering through that State.
E.S. Smith, the father of our subject, was born in Washington, Connecticut,
where the family have resided for about 100 years. He married Miss Eliza
Holbrook, a native of Massachusetts, whose ancestors were among the early
settlers of that State.
	Everett Smith prepared for college in the Hopkins grammar school in New
Haven, the oldest educational institution in Connecticut, and graduated with the
219th annual class in 1879. In 1583 he was a graduate of Yale College; two years
later graduated at the Yale Law School, and was immediately admitted to practice
in the courts of Connecticut. While casting about for a location for settlement,
his attention was turned to Seattle, and in August, 1885, he landed in this
favored city without an acquaintance in the Northwest. Soon after arrival Mr.
Smith was employed by the law firm of Burke & Haller, but one year later opened
an office for himself, since which time, with the exception of one year with
Thomas R. Shepard and Job P. Lyon, has continued alone. He has never taken up
criminal law, but aside from that has followed a general practice, giving
particular attention to probate business. Mr. Smith has also dealt quite
extensively in real estate, much of which he has improved by building houses for
rent, besides erecting the Leader building, on Front street, between Bell and
Battery. He also owns valuable property on Lake Washington, where he resides.
During the Chinese riots of 1886 our subject joined the Home Guards, and took
aim active part in defending the city. After peace was restored he became a
member of Company B, of the volunteer militia, remaining with the company until
the Territory was admitted into the Union.
	The subject of this sketch was united in marriage, in 1888, to Miss Nary F.
Dibble, a native of Seymour, Connecticut. They have two children, Harold and
Everett. In politics Mr. Smith came to the Territory as an earnest Republican,
but his ardor was cooled when he found the chairman of the State Central
Committee of that party a wholesale liquor dealer, and the machinery of both
county and city party organizations in servile subjection to the liquor
interests. After experimenting for himself the folly and waste of endorsing
candidates of other parties, he struck out for independent political action, and
helped organize the first distinctly Prohibition party in the city. Ever since
then he has devoted time, money and personal work to the advancement of the
Prohibition party without compromises. He has been a member of the Executive
Committee of the State Central Committee since the first State convention in
1888, and has frequently been a candidate on his county and State tickets. Mr.
Smith takes an annual summer outing and tramp in the mountains, in August, 1886,
he was one of a small party to ascend Mount Rainier from the northwest side,
but, reaching an altitude of 13,800 feet, further progress seemed impracticable,
and by later attempts it has been demonstrated that the ascent from that side is
impossible. Since coming to the city Mr. Smith has been closely identified with
its progress and development, and is ever ready with a helping hand to further
enterprises which tend toward its aggrandizement and glory.
	
	
Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in September 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer
	
	
	
	
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