BIO:  John SMITH, Germany 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, Pages 433-434

JOHN SMITH, farmer, P.O. Littlestown, was born August 27, 1827, in Mountpleasant 
Township, on the Bonneauville & Oxford Road, where his grandfather, Charles 
Smith, kept a still-house.  Charles Smith, who stood high in this county, came 
from Germany; was a farmer, weaver, distiller and quite a business man, having 
many men working for him; he died on the farm above mentioned.  By this marriage 
with Miss Weikert he had eight sons and three daughters.  Of these children, 
Joseph Smith, who was born about 1792, and died in 1857, aged about sixty-five 
years, was a farmer; married Mary, daughter of Jacob Lawrence, and who died in 
1867, the mother of twelve children.  Of these John, our subject, farmed on the 
homestead till his marriage, when he came to Littlestown, this county, and 
followed agriculture here for four years for Hon. William McSherry.  He acquired 
his education in the public schools; has been a farmer all his life, and now 
owns sixty-five acres of land, though he lives in Littlestown, where he intends 
to pass the evening of his life.  He was married to Miss Anna, daughter of Jacob 
Weirick, and by her has three children now living:  Edmund F., Mrs. Clara L. 
Smith and William A.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Catholic Church.  He 
has ever been a Democrat, and has held the office of supervisor.