{"id":6005,"date":"2013-04-04T04:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2013-04-04T04:37:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:37:23","slug":"c-fayette-smith-on-his-saddle-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/c-fayette-smith-on-his-saddle-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"C. Fayette Smith on his Saddle Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>01 February 1931<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>From a Photograph Taken Over 50 Years Ago<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6006\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2013\/04\/04\/c-fayette-smith-on-his-saddle-horse\/01-feb-1931-c-fayette-smith-abt-1880\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6006\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6006\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6006\" alt=\"C. Fayette Smith on his Saddle Horse\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/01-Feb-1931-C-Fayette-Smith-abt-1880.jpg\" width=\"308\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/01-Feb-1931-C-Fayette-Smith-abt-1880.jpg 574w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/01-Feb-1931-C-Fayette-Smith-abt-1880-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C. Fayette Smith on his Saddle Horse<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All his life C. Fayette Smith has been a lover of horses, and he was seldom absent from a good horse race in the days when the Springdale Trotting Park was extant. Strangely enough, he never placed a bet on a horse in his life. He enjoys today a canter on a horse, and this photograph taken probably 50 years ago shows that in his early life he was just as fond of the saddle horse as in later years.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Fayette Smith was born 24 Aug 1851 and died 16 July 1935. C. Fayette Smith was the son of Jonathan Moseley Smith who ran the swing ferry at Smith&#8217;s Ferry, his mother was Lucinda (Warren) Smith. C. Fayette was a well-known banker starting his career at age 16 when he became a clerk at the Hadley Falls Bank. He went on to work for the George Prentiss company for a number years, then returned to banking in 1891 through 1897 as a cashier for the City bank. At that point he was elected Bank President. He remained unmarried and was buried in Forestdale Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01 February 1931 From a Photograph Taken Over 50 Years Ago All his life C. Fayette Smith has been a lover of horses, and he was seldom absent from a good horse race in the days when the Springdale Trotting Park was extant. Strangely enough, he never placed a bet on a horse in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[642],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}