[1] After completing an eighth grade education, he was trained as a cabinet maker and set up shop in a former tannery building.

Smith left the Woodstock District in 1846, taking with him Eveline Verona English, whom he married in a civil ceremony in May 1846, in their Boston hotel room.

Smith took the first sewing machine ever to be found in Woodstock and gave it to Eveline, herself a renowned tailor, ensuring her own independence.

There Gilkerson attended Penn Medical University, graduating in the spring of 1861 with a degree in medicine, with a major in chemistry.

Smith managed to acquire from Shreve basically the entire town of Shreveville, in Eastampton Township, Burlington County, for only $20,000.

After her death, Smith commissioned an Italian marble statue in her likeness and stood it on a brick pedestal under an iron canopy in the formal garden of the mansion at Smithville.

Smith Machine Company") In addition to the woodworking tools which were the staple of his business, he also manufactured the American Star Bicycle.

[2] He was not re-elected to the 47th United States Congress; however, it is likely that his defeat was a result of the changing winds of American politics and not a reflection on the electorate's opinion of his bigamy, as that year James A. Garfield's Republican Party dominated the election.

[1] He was buried next to his second wife, in the Saint Andrews section of the Pine Street Cemetery in Mount Holly, New Jersey.

Upon the death of his mother, in 1897, Elton Smith, Hezekiah's oldest son, went to Mount Holly in an attempt to remove his father's remains.

Elton then had the statue of his father's second wife toppled, broken into pieces, ground to dust and scattered along Rancocas Creek, using workers from the family business.