Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Massachusetts: Biographical-Genealogical Dean of the banking fraternity of Hola yoke, C. Fayette Smith reviews a life of fifty years spent in the banking business. The institution of which he is the honored head and in which he began as cashier holds a commanding position among West ern Massachusetts financial concerns and is regarded as Holyoke's leading bank. Its phenomenal growth since his connection began may be justly attributed in a large de gree to his clear vision, modern progressive management and to his personal reputation as one of the foremost financiers of his State. With the exception of three years passed in the employ of the George W. Prentiss Company, wire manufacturers, he has been engaged in the banking business from the time he was sixteen until the pres ent, beginning as clerk in the Hadley Falls Bank. In 1897 he had reached his present position, chief executive of the City Na tional Bank of Holyoke, and for twenty years has ably guided the destinies of that institution. He is a descendant of William Smith, born in England, who with four brothers and a sister settled in Connecticut, William settling later in Wethersfield in that State, where he died in January, 1670, leaving nine children by his wife, Elizabeth (starling) Smith, whom he married in 1644. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.