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Will Smith was a lawyer.
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He went to Richmond College October 12, 1888. His professor H.H. Harris was the great Greek scholar and teacher who was chairman of the Faculty at that time; He roomed with Rev. Hite N. Quisenberry was in a contest- competiting Rev. J.J. Wicker, , M.J. Hover, D.D.; now a missionary in China; Rev. W. Keefe (who afterwards was pastor of Greenpond Church June 16, 1909 at the time of Florence Smith's Law's mother's death who was Mary Elizabeth Smith, better known as Sissy, her childhood nickname), Raleigh Pennick and five others. He was successful. For the next seven years he engaged in veinous siness, spent summer and winter of 1889-1890 on the farm of his father. The fall of 1891 he bought out Florence's father's (Henry Andrew Wise Smith) mercantile business at Museville,Virginia and continued in the mercantile business for about eighteen months, sold out the spring of 1893 to Yeatts & Mitchell. He farmed until the fall of 1896 and in October of that year returned to Richmond College he was a member of the Philologian Society and was successful in several debates. After three years in Academic Department of Richmond College he began the study of 1899-1900 and graduated from the T.C. Williams School of Law of Richmond College until June 1, 1901; examined in law by the Supreme Court of Virginia at Wytheville on or about July 4, 1901 and was given license to practice about a week later; located in Chatham about September 3, 1901; married Miss Linda White January 23, 1907 and had children Stuart who died in in fancy and Joseph who married Miss Elizabeth Walker. (B.T.A.)
See also father's & mother's notes.
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