• Born: 12 Nov 1834, Lima NY
• Died: 28 Oct 1899, Detroit MI

  General notes:

Jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• He worked in 1859-1889 as a jeweler in Detroit MI as M. S. SMITH & Co., having purchased the failed business of L. P. Durkee & Co. ⁴

• Alternate Mark

• 1865: Smith's store at the corner of Jefferson and Woodward.

• He appeared on the 1870 census taken at Detroit MI, listed as a jeweler.

• Tradecard, c 1875
  Private Collection
  

• Tradecard, c 1875
  Private Collection
  

• 1883: Smith's new store at the corner of Woodward and State Street.