BIO:  C. D. SMITH, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 395

C. D. SMITH, merchant, McSherrystown, was born September 20, 1855, in Union 
Township, this county.  His father, John Smith, was born near Bonneauville, in 
Mountpleasant Township, this county, in 1825, and later farmed a year in Union 
Township, then moved to Oxford Township in the spring of 1856, and there died in 
the fall of 1859, aged thirty-four years.  John Smith was married to Mary Ann, 
daughter of Jacob Marshall, and who is yet living.  They had three children, of 
whom only Charles D. survives.  His sister, Ann M., died aged twenty-four.  The 
ancestors of the Smiths were of German descent, the great-grandfather Smith 
coming from the old country and settling near Bonneauville, Penn.  He had eight 
sons and three daughters, of whom Charles was born in this country, married, and 
had three sons and one daughter.  Our subject was educated in Conowago Township, 
this county, and attended the Sisters’ School in McSherrystown and at Hanover, 
Penn.  In early life he farmed, but in 1881 embarked in the cigar business in 
partnership with J. A. Poist.  Mr. Smith sold out his interest the next year, 
and embarked in the grocery business, in which he has since continued.  C. D. 
Smith was married, September 8, 1881, to Miss Clara C. Weaver, born May 5, 1859, 
in York County, Penn., daughter of Anthony Weaver.  They have two children:  
Edward C., born November 5, 1882, and Rodger A., born October 5, 1884.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Smith are members of Conowago Chapel.  Politically our subject is a 
Republican.  He has served as treasurer of the borough.