"Prominent Men of West Virginia"
George Wesley Atkinson, Alvaro Franklin Gibbens
Published by W. L. Callin, 1890 - West Virginia

ANTHONY SMITH

HON. ANTHONY SMITH, of Tyler county, has been farmer, soldier, lawyer and 
legislator. He was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1844, 
and came over the line into Virginia, in 1848, when only four years old. 
In boyhood he received a fair, but not liberal education. He enlisted, 
August 14, 1862, in Company F, Fourteenth Regiment, West Virginia 
Volunteer Infantry. May 9th, 1864, he was captured at the Battle of
Cloyd Mountain, Virginia, and was a prisoner in Danville, Lynchburg, 
Andersonville, Savannah, Milieu, Bluckshear, Docktown, and Thomasville, 
Georgia. He never applied for furlough or was at home during the entire 
war; was released from prison, near Jacksonville, Florida, April 28, 
1865, with the collapse of the Confederacy, and returning to the farm 
near Wick, Tyler county, he resumed agriculture and began the study and 
practice of law. He was elected to the House of Delegates of 1871, ’72 
and ’73; served in the State Senate, sessions of 1883 and 1885 ; was a 
candidate for the pending Senate and filed papers of contest for the seat 
held by John D. Sweeney, Democrat. Mr. Smith was upon the Republican 
ticket of 1888, as a candidate for Presidential Elector, but was 
defeated with the rest of the nominees. 

Submitted by Linda Fluharty.