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declared, was like a perpetual picnic m after the Iron discipline he had known t in the German service. His hitch com- f pleted, he drifted to Gloucester and * Joined the Ashing Aeet, putting in sev- I.eral seasons on the Grand Banks and ( the Georges. ,Then Smith bought a small sloop and tried Ashing on his own, cruising as he U pleased along the coast. Caught in an j easterly gale once, he ran for shelter i and landed in West Point with Just 50 , cents as his cash capital. That was 43 , years ago, and here he has been ever | since. His wanderlust years were now | astern. ,He married Inez Gilliam and settled down to the serious business of raising a family and earning a living and was eminently successful at both undertakings, for he had 12 children and became outstandingly one of the most prosperous men in these parts. He got into , store keeping more or less by accident, and made a go of it. Alone and practi-cally unaided be built his store, his house, Ave cottages on the shore which he rented out to Summer people, and the big hall which is widely known by dance followers for 20 miles around. Likewise he superintended the construction of the Ballou's big residence on Little Wood Island, and erected the several lesser buildings appertaining thereto.• Had Smith settled in a large community where there was more opportunity, he would unquestionably have become a very rich man. But that would have been no life for him. Hewas to the last essentially a pioneer and an Individualist, a patriarch by instinct and practice. He regarded success ps a relative propoaitlon and preferred the role of the big frog in the small puddle to that of being a whale in an ocean. Moreover, no material suceess in town or city would have compensated for the loss of the salt sea he loved so(Continued on Page Two)
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Thu, Jul 13, 1933
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