Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-13
v. {. Smelling
DIES SUDDENLY
OLD.TlME ATTORNEY OF CITY
PASSES AWAY OF HEART
DISEASE.
ATTACK OF INDIGESTION
BRINGS FATAL SEIZURE
Death Comes a. 4 O'clock, Afser Four
Hours llness-Mr. Smelling Was
Vice President of Fidelity Savings
Sank and Former Member of City
council-Sketcr Of Career.

4 Death came with but htae warning
al I O'Clock this morning to w L.
Smelling. an old-tirue attorney Of the
city ana vice president Of the Fidelity
Savings Bank. Mr.. Smelling died Of
heart disease at his home. 5oe West
Main street, four hours after he had
awakened owing 10 an attack of acute
Indigestion.
M. Smelling was in MS usual health
Monday, was a, his office looking after
his business and felt we'll even up to
the a3Gr he Went 10 bed az 10 O'Clock
About midnight Mrs. smelling noticed
thar her husband was becoming rest
less, and she feared an attack Of indi-
sestiun. TO which Mr., Smelling was
subject. Because he was unable TO
sleep Mr. Smelling arose. and Mrs.
smelling summoned DR., Merrill. He
gave The patient medicine 10 quiet the
Indigestion. but she attack continued.
Al o'clock Dr. Merrill vas called
again, and, because Of me impaired
heart action Of his patient, gave him
a hypoGerrn!c Of strychnia 10 stirau-
late me heart. The pulse soon revived,
and the doctor remarked 10 Mrs. Smell
Ing that !; was practically normal
again
But pever was this way before
MIR. Smelling remarked. These were his
last words The end came most peace
fully, and without struggle.
Native of Ohio.
William Edwin Smelling was a ma
live Of Colunlbiera county Ohio
where he was born july %. 1885. . son
NJ John Smelling ard wife His par
ents being poor. their children were
rot able 10 obtain the advantages az
.orded 10 most yoGng people OF the
present day. ard il was not until he
was % years OF age that the son WI
liam had been able 20 secure enough
schooling II me common schools OF the
county. by attending winter and spring
terms. 20 fl himself for higher ed
ucar!on.
Working together as farm hands,
and attending country schools togeth
er, brough, young Smelling and his
first cousin. Thaddeus Blnford. 10 be-
come bosom companions. Both wanted
better educetions. They saved their
money earned Or the farm and entered
L
whore they were students for two
yee.s. Deciding on the law as their
future work. The cousins both entered
he Ohio State Law Schaol. al Clere-
land. from where they we're graduated
June Is, 1853, after having worked
their way thru school oy doing JAM
Tor work and other odd JOBS. During
part OF their years n sch POI they ran
bachelors hail" and did their own
cooking
Comes Yves. in 1855.
While a student in Mount Union COL
lege Mr.. Smelling me, Miss Anna
Reeves. Of Mount Union, and after ne
had taught school IN OHIO for a year
following his graduation. MI Smelling
made Miss Reeves his wife, the wed
ding taking place at the Reeves home
Jan %. 1855. That same year Nj. and
Mrs. Smelling came west. settling on a
farm near Upton. in Cedar county
Mr.. Smelling taught school there for
two years. In addition 10 his farming
operations. and In 1857 came 70 Mar
shal!town. where hia cousin and boy
hood friend had settled Il. June, 1854.
in The practice Of law
Forms Partnership With Binfor6.
For year after he came 10 Mar
alone. He then formed a copartner-
ship with the late ]. +. Meeker. and for
TWO years the firm conducted its bust
ness under the name OF Meeker &
Smelling. In 1870 the law firm OF Biz
ford & Gneliiag was established. ano
continued for twelve years, when Mr.
Bintord formed d copar;nership with
the late Timothy Brown. In 1897 the
former firm OF Binford &, Smelling wss
again established. and continued until
its iiuai dissolution =: lsa2
With Fidelity Since Organization.
When the Fidelity savings Bank wa@s
organized by Kirby & Howe and Bin
ford e. Smelling In 1892, Mr.. Smelling
became vice president Of the bank, an
office ne hos since held.
IN 1886 Mr.. Smelling was elected q
member OF the city council from the
Second ward. succeeding E. L. Lei1ert.
under the administration OF r. Rowe
Taylor as mayor, and with the late Q.
z. Barrows SIS the other member from
the Second ward. Mr.. Smelling served
until the spring Of 1884, when he was
succeeded by Merritt Greene
President Cemetery Association.
When the Marshall Cemetery Asso-
citation WAS re-incorporated June l,
1883. following twenty years OF exist
ence Mr.. Smelling was elected a
trustee He has served as member
OF the board ever since, and since
May i, 1898. has been president of the
board. On May /, 1914, his term as