Mr. Emery J. Smith This is Me

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   As the needs of the world have been manifest there have come to the front men capable of meeting these needs through the outcome of invention or scientific achievement, and in this connection Emery J. Smith is known, occupying, as he does a foremost place among the enterprising and successful men of Columbus. As one of the organizers and the president of the Smith Agricultural Chemical Company he was largely responsible for the wonderful growth and prosperity that the corporation enjoyed. and was also one of the prominent factors in the organization of the recently formed Independent Fertilizer Company of New Jersey, the largest concern of the kind in the world. This business, utilizing the researches of science and the modern process of manufacture, has become one of the most important industrial concerns not only of Columbus, but of America., and meets a need in agricultural life that is contributing in substantial measure to success in farming.
   
   Mr. Smith is one of Ohio's native residents. His birth having occurred in Sunbury, Delaware county, oil the 16th of January.
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   Of this family James Smith became the grandfather of E. J. Smith.
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   Their children are four sons: Emery J. Smith, Hugh E., William Abbott and Marshall A., all of Columbus.
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   Very early in life Mrs. Smith became a Christian, but did not unite with a church until in 1866, when she was received into the Baptist church at Sunbury. Her married life of forty years ended in 1900 with the death of her husband. He was widely known and was called one of Delaware county's fine financiers. He was always ready to do for any who needed help.
   
   E. J. Smith is eligible to the Sons American Revolution through his great-great-grandfather, in the maternal line, Captain Samuel Thrall, Sr., and his son, Samuel Thrall, Jr., who enlisted from Granville, Massachusetts, in the Revolution.
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   Jr., above mentioned, and they were great-grandparents of Emery J. Smith.
   
   In this age where education is free to all, so that the majority may have almost equal preparation for life's practical duties, success is dependent almost entirely upon individual merit. The number of avenues of business, too, have so greatly increased that each individual may find work, if he so desires, that is suited to his tastes and his powers, and if failure follows it is the result of a
   
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   lack of close application and of unwillingness to pay for success the price of unremitting industry and careful management. Emery J. Smith in his business career has made that steady advancement which results from the recognition and utilization of each opportunity, combined with a spirit of thoroughness that has prompted him to do with all his might whatever his hand has found to do. At the usual age he entered the public schools at Sunbury, and therein pursued his studies until he completed the high-school course. He was afterward a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, but left school while in the senior year to become assistant cashier in the Farmers Bank at Sunbury. His diligence and faithfulness won him promotion to the position of cashier, and eventually he became vice president.. His knowledge of the banking business led to his organization of the Bank of Westerville, of which he continued as president for twelve consecutive years, making the institution one of the strong financial concerns of the state. Constantly alert for favorable openings in the business world, his careful survey of the field and his study of the entire situation and possibilities of the case prompted him in 1895 to formulate a plan for the organization of an extensive manufacturing establishment to meet the pressing agricultural needs of the great middle west.