BIOGRAPHY: Elisha Smith; Crown Point, Essex co., NY
surname: Smith, Barber

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Author: Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-1880, page 309

ELISHA SMITH
Is the son of Benjamin Smith, and was born at Crown Point, Essex county, N.Y. 
Up to the age of twenty-one years he worked at farming and lumbering in his 
native place. He then removed to Mill Creek, Erie county, Pa., and there 
engaged in teaming, which he followed twelve years. He removed to Rockdale 
[Crawford Co., PA] in 1848 and settled on a farm of sixty acres which he had 
bought three years before the farm now comprises 150 acres. In 1867 a post-
office was established at his place and named Brown Hill, he being appointed 
postmaster. He served a little over three years and resigned. He followed 
farming exclusively until 1875, when he built a small store and has since 
carried it on in connection with his agricultural pursuits. He has been 
Supervisor of the township, and one of its leading men since he made it his 
place of residence. He married, April, 1849, Miss Jane R. Barber, daughter of 
James Barber of the same township [Rockdale].