Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 800.
 
ALEX SMITH

     a prosperous merchant of Sisters. Crook county, was born in New Brunswick,
Canada, August 16, 1869. His father, John B. Smith, was one of the first
settlers of a portion of New Brunswick, where he plunged into the dense timber
and succeeded in clearing a fine and productive farm of three hundred and twenty
acres.
     At the age of fourteen years our subject left New Brunswick and journeyed
to Boston, Massachusetts, where he remained two years in the "Hub of the
Universe," as the city has been felicitously called from time immemorial. It was
in 1886 that he came to Grass Valley, Sherman count, Oregon, of which locality
he was one of the earliest settlers, as it might be said, a pioneer of pioneers.
Here, for a period of twelve years Mr. Smith was engaged in the industry of
raising sheep. He then disposed of his holdings in this business and came to the
town of Sisters where he at once engaged in the mercantile business, in which he
has been quite successful, and which he still profitably continues.
     Mr. Smith is, fraternally, a member of the I. O. O. F., and the A. O. U. W.
He has made a success of every undertaking in which he has engaged since coming
west, and has excellent reason to be proud of his present prosperity. He numbers
many friends in the community in which he resides and has won the confidence of
his fellow citizens by upright business dealings and strict probity.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.