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Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.)

b. 1827-08-16 d. 1899-11-08

Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin. Brown County, Wisconsin, native. Son of Henry Smith and Elvira Foster Smith. Married to Sarah M. Fellows Smith in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, on September 1, 1853. Father of Anna E. Smith, Henry L. Smith, and Eva E. Smith. Graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, in 1846. Attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1850. Attorney in Milwaukee in 1860. Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin from 1862 to 1866.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Ward 4, p. 335.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Ward 7, p. 106A.

Wisconsin Marriage Records Pre-1907, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Vol 01-09, Microfilm 104, Marriage 01957.

"Died in London," The Weekly Wisconsin(Milwaukee, WI), November 11, 1899, p. 4.

Parker McCobb Reed, The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography (Milwaukee, WI: P.M. Reed, 1882), 191-9.

Citation

Smith, Winfield. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212529 (November 12, 2026).

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