Lyman, W. D. "An Illustrated History of Walla Walla County, State of Washington." W. H. Lever, Publisher, 1901. p. 359. WINFIELD D. SMITH undertaker and embalmer, 130 E. Alder street, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, December 23, 1850, and there the first fourteen years of his life were passed. From that time until 1880 he was a resident of McLean county, Illinois. He received a thorough public-school education, supplemented by a course in the Wesleyan University, located at Bloomington, Illinois, then engaged in teaching, which profession he followed for the ensuing five years. He then came west with a car-load of horses. These he disposed of at The Dalles, Oregon, where for the next three years he was engaged in stock raising. Coming to Walla Walla in 1883, Mr. Smith turned his attention to the manufacture of woven wire matresses, and in 1885 he became a shipper of fruit and produce. In 1890 he built the first fruit evaporator in the county, and this he still owns and operates. He has recently begun the manufacture of cider vinegar, and in November of this year he began the erection of a factory for that purpose, which will have a capacity of thirty-five hundred barrels per annum, and which, he says, will be the first and only pure cider vinegar factory in the state. In addition to his extensive fruit business our subject has, since 1889, been the owner and operator of a suite of undertaking parlors on Alder street. He is also interested in mining in the Rocky Bar district in Idaho. Mr. Smith is one of the most enterprising and progressive business men in the county, and a man who stands high in the esteem of his fellow townspeople generally. In fraternal affiliation he is connected with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He was married in Portland, Oregon, in 1893, to Miss Nathalie Grenier, a native of Ohio, and they have two children, Madeline and Laura. ******************* Submitted to the Washington Bios. Project in August 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.