About Lindol Smith
Born 1832. Lindol Smith was a politician.
Lindol Smith (born June 6, 1832) was an American mayor and state legislator in Idaho. He served two terms as mayor of Moscow, Idaho.
Smith was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio in Tuscarawas County. He became a carpenter and served in the American Civil War. His wife and several other family members were killed by scarlet fever. The financial panic of 1873 cost him financially. He built a planing mill in Moscow around 1882. He served as a councilman, mayor, and was elected to the state legislature in 1898.
Captain Edward Smith was one of his sons.
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