Lindley M. Smith (1881-1966), Assistant State Entomologist (1906-1914) and orchardist (1914-1966) of Ozark, Illinois. Instrumental in development of University of Illinois Extension Service experimental farms in Johnson County. Married Grace Selby of Bartlett, Ohio, on December 28, 1906. Together they operated a three hundred acre apple and peach orchard and raised a family of eight boys and two girls.
A daughter, Alice Elisabeth (Betty) Smith (1913-1973), graduated from the University of Illinois (B.S. degree in Home Economics) in 1937 and the University of Colorado in 1943 and taught home economics in Crete Public Schools (1937-1947). She completed a series of home economics overseas assignments through the Agency for International Development in the United States State Department traveled to the Philippines, Iran, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Vietnam (1955-1970). Returned to the United States in 1970; served as Extension Home Economist and Head of the Extended Nutrition Program in Des Moines, Iowa. Betty was in charge of Mrs. Patricia Nixon's visit to the program on March 1, 1971.
From the description of Papers, 1903-1973. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 22256999
