From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 437-438.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


A. E. SMITH

A. E. Smith (son of George W.)  was born in Pittsburgh, on Penn 
avenue, where Library Hall now stands, April 29, 1843.  He was reared 
in Pittsburgh, attending Sewickley academy near Pittsburgh.  In 1856 
he came to Wheeling with his father and family.  In 1859 his father 
sent him to England to complete his education.  Attending the London 
university for one term he was then compelled to abandon his studies 
on account of the failure of his eyes.  For a year he was under the 
care of Walton, the eminent oculist, who sent him to Malta, he then 
returned to the United States, arriving in New York the same night 
that Lincoln was first declared elected.  He was under Dr. Houston's 
care after his return to Wheeling, until the summer of 1861, when he 
went to St. Catherines Springs, and remained there that summer, when 
his eyesight was recovered and he entered his father's brewery to 
learn the business.  After his father's retirement from business he 
brewed for Carson, Darlington & Co., remaining with that firm in 
Pittsburgh for three years.  He then went to Newark, N. J., and 
worked for Peter Ballentine & Son, then the largest brewers in this 
country.  After three years he returned to Wheeling and took his 
father's old brewery in partnership with Arthur Teece, his father 
being a silent partner. In 1877 the firm dissolved and Mr. Smith 
bought out the old brewery known as the Brook Heart brewery on Market 
street, where he has since been engaged in the ale brewing business.  
February 9, 1869, he married Virginia Barton, daughter of John 
Barton, an attorney of Pittsburgh.  Ruby, George W. and Allen E. are 
the issue of this marriage.


(Linda Fluharty)