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- Served with 148th New York Infantry, Company G from August 17, 1864-June 22, 1865. Registered for the draft as an alien, June, 1863. Served as a substitute for Chas. P. Fitch of Auburn. Daniel Boone Smith was U.S. Vice to Deputy Counsul in Canada from August 10, 1893-1898 during the second Grover Cleveland Administration, 1893-1897. This information originally came from a letter he wrote to his son, Charles William, on Sept. 4th 1898. At the time D.B. was living at 141 Rebecca Street, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Confirmed with National Archives October 6, 1999. His first wife Angeline Cretsley died in 1877 and he imigrated to Canada in 1879. He remarried in 1880. He had two children with his second wife who are not in our line. Only one of those children survived to adulthood. In the 1911 Canadian census there is a James and Elizabeth Hodge living with Daniel and Rebecca and their daughter, Elizabeth. James Hodge is listed as father-in-law of Daniel but Rebecca’s father is William Farmer. Daniel B. was 36 in June of 1865 when he was discharged from the service., , , , , , , , , , ,
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