Early Life
Smith was born in New Berlin, New York on October 5, 1816. He graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1837, and then began the study of law. Soon after Smith admitted to the bar. In 1838 he established the New York Watchman newspaper in Rochester, New York, which he edited for two years. Smith also edited the True Jeffersonian and the Western Herald in Rochester for a time in 1840. In 1841, he founded the Western Empire in Dayton, Ohio.
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