BIO: Frank S. SMITH, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 601 & 602.
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  FRANK S. SMITH, manager of the Penfield Supply Company's general store, at 
Penfield, Pa., has been a resident of Clearfield county since 1892.  He was born 
in County Lincoln, Canada, in September, 1875, on his father's fruit farm, and 
is a son of Sardis and Sarah (Squires) Smith.
  Sardis Smith was a native of Canada but his wife was born in Pennsylvania.  He 
died on his farm in the Dominion, but she survives.  They had six children, 
namely:  William E., living in Canada; Victor, who is deceased; George, who 
resides at Warren, Pa.; Lena and Robert, both of whom still live in Canada; and 
Frank S., who was the fifth born in the family.
  Frank S. Smith attended the public schools in his native county until he was 
fifteen years of age and then went to Rochester, N. Y., where he took a 
commercial course in a business college.  From there he went to Warren, Pa., 
where he became a clerk in a general store at Rice's Tannery, of which his 
brother George was manager, and from there, in 1892, came to Penfield, first as 
a clerk for T. E. Proctor, for the Penfield Store Company, and at present is 
with the Penfield Supply Company, as manager, succeeding C. O. Lowstetter.  He 
is energetic and progressive and has a fine understanding of business and enjoys 
the confidence and esteem of the company.  Mr. Smith married Miss Effie Kline, a 
daughter of Dr. J. H. Kline, of Penfield, Pa., and they have two children, Helen 
and Victor.