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Caption: Dedication - Smith Music Hall
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Thomas J. Smith Tina Weedon Smith BIOGRAPHIES Thomas J. Smith, whose gift has made possible a building for the School of Music, was born in Preston County, Virginia. While yet a child his parents moved to Logan County, Ohio. After completing the common schools and high school he was a teacher for several years in Ohio and 'later in Illinois to which state he removed in 1858. In the fall of 1859 he was elected County Superintendent of Clay County for a term of four years. In 1862 he resigned that office to enlist as a private soldier in Company " F " 98 Illinois Infantry. From time to time he was promoted until he was made Captain of his company. On January 25, 1864, while yet in the Army, he was married to Miss Tina Weedon of Woodbury, Tennessee. For a time Mrs. Smith lived in Illinois but the severity of the climate compelled her to return to her home in the south. At the close of the war she joined her husband at Nashville, Tennessee, and returned to Champaign, Illinois, where she continued to reside until her death in August 1903. Mrs. Smith was a light-hearted and high-spirited woman; she enjoyed the companionship of friends and delighted in entertaining them in her home. She was particularly fond of music which she and her husband had rare opportunities to enjoy on their many long trips about the world. Her husband's appreciation of this woman is evidenced by the fact that to her memory and honor a music building is now in process of erection on the campus of the I 'Diversity of Illinois.
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