Smith, Thomas P.

Flourished: Sangamon County, Illinois

Thomas P. Smith was a businessman, shoemaker, and defendant in numerous Sangamon County Circuit Court cases involving the firm of Stuart & Lincoln. Smith was involved in a partnership with John Fenner, which the two dissolved in October 1836. In March 1837, he married Sarah Jones, with whom he had four children. In April 1837, Smith announced the formation of a shoemaking business in Springfield. Thomas P. and Sarah Smith eventually moved to Missouri.

Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 15 October 1836, 2:7; 25 March 1837, 3:2; 29 April 1837, 3:4; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Sangamon County, 21 March 1837, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 420; For Smith's cases involving Lincoln, search "Smith, Thomas P.," Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org.