BIO:  Cornelius SMITH, Reading Township, 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 505

CORNELIUS SMITH, retired farmer, P. O. Hampton, was born August 26, 1826, in 
Adams County, Penn., and is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Crumb) Smith, natives 
of Maryland.  His father was a farmer and moved to Adams County, Penn., at an 
early day, where he lived until his death in 1878.  Our subject was reared on a 
farm, and remained with his parents until he was thirty-five years of age, when 
he commenced farming on his own account and lived on the homestead six years.  
In 1866 he moved to Hampton and bought the property where he now resides, and 
where he has followed farming until last year, when he retired.  He owns twenty-
five acres of good land.  March 6, 1860, he married Nancy Dicks.  Mr. Smith is 
an enterprising, intelligent citizen; Mrs. Smith is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church.