| John Peter Smith | |
| Office: | 4th Mayor of Missoula |
| Term Start: | August 6, 1885 |
| Term End: | May 2, 1887 |
| Predecessor: | Thomas C. Marshall |
| Successor: | Dwight Harding |
| Birth Date: | October 1848 |
| Birth Place: | Pennsylvania |
| Otherparty: | Democratic |
| Spouse: | Sophia Alice Hammer (1874- ?), Ida Mary Reinicke (1887 - 1892) |
| Children: | Ida Lisetta (Smith) Cory |
| Profession: | Mayor, Sawmill worker |
John Peter Smith (Oct. 1848 – ?) was born in Pennsylvania to immigrant parents with his father from Germany and his mother from France.[1] He moved to Fort Madison, Iowa where he lived with Barbara Green, a widow also from Pennsylvania with French immigrant parents.[2]
In Iowa, Smith worked in a sawmill and married his first wife, Sophia Alice Hammer. After their daughter Ida Lisetta Smith was born in 1876, the family moved to Frenchtown, Montana in Missoula County.[3]
Smith was serving as an alderman in the newly incorporated city of Missoula in 1885 when he was appointed mayor pro tem on August 6 after Mayor Thomas C. Marshall resigned.[4] He was elected mayor in a special election on August 23 and served until May 2, 1887.[5]
Near the end of his term, Smith married Ida Mary Reinicke, the daughter of a prominent stockgrower and owner of the popular Reinicke House, which served as accomdations in Sun river Leavings, Montana.[6] [7] [8] [9]
After serving as mayor, Smith once again divorced and in 1900 was living as an unemployed barber in the Albert R Zoske household. He later moved to Spokane, Washington to live with his daughter Ida and her husband Samuel W. Cory.[1] [10]