WILLIAM B. SMITH, M.D., post office, New City, was born in Williamsburg, Claremont county, Ohio, March 15, 1846; son of Robert D., and Margaret (Burkitt) Smith, the former of Ohio and the latter of Kentucky. They lived and died in Claremont county, Ohio, the mother on July 10, 1849, of cholera, the father, January 15, 1862. William B., attended the higher schools of Ohio and Kentucky, until he was twenty-one years of age, when he commenced the study of medicine in Dover, Kentucky, with his uncle, and was with him three years; afterward studied with Samuel Burkitt, and H. Clay Lassing, of Boone county, in the winter of 1869-70. He attended lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at Keokuk, Iowa, in the spring of 1878, where he graduated with honors. He practiced three years in Kentucky and seven years in this State. He married Alice E., daughter of J. M., and Myra O. Haines, of Cotton Hill township, where she was born. They have two children, Robert M., born March 9, 1880, and Newell Jay, born September 13, 1881. The doctor has a good practice in the county; is at the present time town treasurer, and has been two years. He was elected justice of the peace, but declined to serve. He laid out the village of New City, and gave it the name, and was the first postmaster in it.