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[Erasmus M. Smithers] : [Renton settler]
Erasmus M. Smithers came to Washington Territory by wagon train as a young man. He served in the territorial militia and worked in lumber camps. In 1857, he married Diana Tobin, the widow of another early Renton settler (see SHS 1,554). Smithers was a founder of the Renton Coal Company and filed the first plat for the city of Renton. He died in 1900. This photo of Erastus Smithers was probably taken in the 1880s
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