Benjamin H. Smith
Feb. 7, 1878-Oct. 17, 1954
Niles Daily Star, Monday, October 18, 1954, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Benjamin H. Smith, 731 Hickory street, vice president of the Michigan Wire Goods Company and active . . .[illegible] . . last Monday.
His wife, Grace, died on March 8, 1953. Surviving are two sons, Mahlon, of Niles, and Rolland, of New Orleans, La.; one daughter, Mrs. Dale Apt, of South Bend, and two grandchildren.
Smith was born Feb. 7, 1878, in Coldwater Township, Branch County, and came here from Coldwater in 1902. He was a graduate of Cleary Business College, at Ypsilanti, and was a member of the Rotary Club, the Knights of Pythias, was a director of the Niles Federal Savings and Loan Association, chairman of the local Cemetery Board, trustee of the First Methodist Church, member of the South Bend Knife and Fork Club, and president of the Buff Wyandotte Club.
Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Methodist Church, with the Rev. L. George Beacock, Methodist pastor, presiding. Burial was in Silverbrook Cemetery.