George Simpson Smith (1822-1897)

He was born at Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, son of John and Christian (Patterson) Smith. In 1843, he came out to to Lake County, Illinois, and bought a farm a mile north of Milburn. He married Beatrice Yule in 1845. He moved to Evanston in about 1893. He was a cousin of George "Chicago" Smith who left $44 million of his $52 million fortune to be divided equally between George's son, James "Silent" Smith, and the husband of his second  daughter (Mary), Sir George Cooper.