Lenora
1853 – ?
Dr. Smith was born on a farm near Milan, Ohio, in 1853. At the age of thirteen Walter began to attend the Western Reserve Normal School and continued his attendance until seventeen years of age, at which time he became a student at the high school of Ann Arbor, Michigan. At eighteen he entered the university of Michigan, from the medical department of which he received a diploma, at age of twenty-one. He practiced medicine at Rochester, Ohio, for two years, but account of failing health removed to Cleveland for the purpose of practicing where he could avoid the exposure incident to a country practice. The years afterward his health still remaining poor, he resolved to try a change of climate and roaming westward at last settled in Lenora, where he has since been engaged, for the greater part of the time in the practice of his profession and in the drug business.
From Norton County Advance, Oct. 11, 1882– He was running for representative of this district, but he didn’t get it.
Lenora Leader, July 7, 1887– A letter from Dr. W. W. Smith of Erie, Colorado, informs us he is practicing medicine and doing well , all of which his many friends here will be glad to hear.