[1] He moved to Fort Madison, Iowa where he lived with Barbara Green, a widow also from Pennsylvania with French immigrant parents.
[2] In Iowa, Smith worked in a sawmill and married his first wife, Sophia Alice Hammer.
After their daughter Ida Lisetta Smith was born in 1876, the family moved to Frenchtown, Montana in Missoula County.
[5] Near the end of his term, Smith married Ida Mary Reinicke, the daughter of a prominent stockgrower and owner of the popular Reinicke House, which served as accomdations in Sun river Leavings, Montana.
[6][7][8][9] After serving as mayor, Smith once again divorced and in 1900 was living as an unemployed barber in the Albert R Zoske household.