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FORT See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Sebastian county, on the extreme W. border of See also:Arkansas, U.S.A., lying about 440 ft. above See also:sea-level, on the S. See also:bank of the Arkansas See also:river, at its junction with the Poteau, and at the point where the Arkansas breaks through the See also:Boston mountains. Pop. (1890) 11,311; (1900) 11,587, of whom 2407 were of See also:negro descent and 684 -were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 23,975. Transportation is afforded by the river and by six See also:railways, the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & See also:San Francisco, the St Louis, See also:Iron See also:Mountain & See also:Southern, the Arkansas Central, the Fort Smith & Western, the Midland Valley and the See also:Kansas City Southern. A See also:belt See also:line See also:round the business centre of the city facilitates See also:freight transfers. Some of the business streets are unusually broad, and the streets in the residential See also:district are well shaded. Fort Smith is the business centre of a See also:fine agricultural See also:country and of the Arkansas See also:coal and natural See also:gas region. It has extensive wholesale jobbing interests and a large See also:miscellaneous See also:trade, partly in its own manufactures, among which are See also:cotton and See also:timber products, chairs, mattresses and other See also:furniture, wagons, brooms and bricks. In 1905 the See also:total value of the factory product was $2,329,454, an increase of 66.2% since 1900. The public See also:schools have a See also:rich endowment: the proceeds of lands (about200 acres) once belonging to the See also:local military See also:reservation, which—except the See also:part occupied by a See also:national cemetery—was given by See also:Congress to the city in 1884. Near the centre of the city are a See also:Catholic See also:academy, See also:convent and infirmary; and there is a See also:Carnegie library. A See also:United States See also:army See also:post was established here in 1817; the See also:town was laid out in 1821; and the county was created in 1851. Fort Smith was incorporated as a town in 1842, and was chartered as a city in 1845. All transportation was by river and See also:wagon until 1876, when the railway was completed from Little See also:Rock. The military post, in earlier years the See also:chief See also:depot for the western forts, was abandoned in 1871. During the See also:Civil See also:War Fort Smith was strongly in sympathy with the Confederacy. The fort was seized by See also:state troops in See also:April 1861, and was reoccupied by the See also:Union forces in See also:September 1863. There was considerable unrest due to border " See also:bush-whacking " throughout the war, and several skirmishes took
See also:place here in 1864. The See also:area of the city was more than doubled in 1905.
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