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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
il scIhool; Joe C., who (lied at the age of
seventeen years.
lMr. Ed C. Smitl engaged at the carpenter's
trade ill 1868, working at that until
1876, since which time he has been in the
undertaking business. In their transfer business
the company employs thirty-two men
and sixty-nine head of horses, having a fine
barn, 50x 200 feet, facing Jackson street,
and extending back to Wood street.
Mr. Smitl takes an active interest in politics;
has been Alderman three times, and, in
a race for the office of Maayor of the city, came
within one vote of being elected.
Ile married, in 1872, Miss Mattie Fletcher,
a daughter of John L. and Ann (Harris)
Fletcller, a very early family of this county.
Socially, Mr. Smith is a member of Dallas
Lodge, No. 44, I. . O. F., of which lodge he
has filled all tle cllairs. He is also a member
of Cceur de Lion Lodge, No. 8, K. of P.
lie is also a member of Uniformed Rank,
t. of P., Cceur de Lion, No. 5; of Fidelity
Lodge, No. 410, A. L. of' 11., and of tlle Elks.
Mr. and lMrs. Smith are members of the
Coin merce Street Christian Churcl. Mr.
Smith assisted in building the first church
erected in Dallas city, and was a member of
that church. He takes an active interest in
church affairs, as well as in secular matters.
ILLIAMI B. GANO, an eminent jurist
of Dallas, Texas, and for several
years president of the Bar Association
of that city, was born in Bourbon
county, Kentucky, February 20, 1854. His
parents are General R. M. and Mattie J.
Gano,'a sketch of whose'life appears elsewhere
in this volume. Wiliam B. Gano was educated
in the Kentucky State University, afterwhich he graduated in law at Harvard University,
in the class of 1877. Immediately
afterward, he opened an office in Dallas,
where he has successfully practiced his profession
ever since. Naturally of superior
ability and unusual legal acumen, supplemented
by excellent training in two renowned
institutions of learning, he has easily made
his way to prominence in his chosen profession,
while his high sense of honor and uniform
courtesy has gained for him the universal
esteem of his fellow men. He is president
of the Bankers and Merchants' Bank
Building Company, incorporated in Texas;
is an active member of the Board of Trade;
and a director of the lBankers and Merchants'
National Bank.
IIe was married August 31, 1882, in. Fayette
county,, Kentucky, to Miss Nettie D.
Grissil, an educated and amiable lady, a
daughter of Dr. Grissim, a prominent physician
of that county, and a granddaughter of
Barton W. Stone. She is a graduate of
Hamilton College, Lexington, Kentucky, and
also of Wellseley College, as well as of the
Musical Conservatory of Cincinnati, Ohio.
She possesses much talent in belles-lettres,
and is a musician of marked ability. Mr.
and Mrs. Gano have three children, Allene,
Richard Chilton, and Annette.
Mr. Gano takes an interest in all public
matters of importance, and like all good men
desires to see men of ability and integrity
at the helm of government.
He and his faithful wife are devoted and
useful members of the Christian Church, to
the support of which they liberally contribute.
A worthy and influential citizen, publicspirited
and enterprising; an able and honorable
counselor; and a man of superior literary
judgment and taste; Mr. Gano is emi
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/1102/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.