BIO: Clarence E. SMITH, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 190. __________________________________________________________ CLARENCE E. SMITH Huntingdon, Pa. Guard, Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory: Born November 14, 1883, in Trough Creek Valley, Huntingdon County, Pa. A son of William L. Smith; he was an expert sawyer by trade, and was for twelve years a guard at the Reformatory. His father, Samuel Smith, was a journalist. William L. Smith died May 18, 1926, at the age of seventy years; he was married to Laura J. (Ferguson) Smith, who died November 7, 1926, at the age of sixty-nine years; they were of Scotch-Irish-Welsh descent. Clarence E. Smith began his early schooling at the Fourth Ward Schools of Huntingdon, Pa., and was two years at the Huntingdon High School. He is a machinist by trade; was with the Standard Steel Works at Burnham, Mifflin County, Pa., for twenty years, and for five years was with the Penn Central Light and Power Co. He belongs to the Lutheran Church; wife also; when he resided at Burnham he was Assistant Superintendent of the Sunday School; at present he is a guard at the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory; has been a guard for over two years and a half. He is a World War veteran; first served for nine months on the Mexican border. Enlisted for World War at Huntingdon, Pa., in Co. F, 8th Inf.; left for Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia; there for eight months; transferred to Air Service Mechanics; left for Camp Green, Charlotte, North Carolina; there for three months; left for overseas 20th of June, 1918, at New York, on French transport (Patria); on water fourteen days; arrived at Brest, France; there for ten days; was distributing baggage for officers; left for reconstruction base, near American railroad, at Jebs; there for three days; left for First Air Depot at Combeyles-bells; was then put on detached service for observation work at Bayonne, France; there for four months; went back to First Air Depot; there until homeward bound on about July 1, 1919; arrived at embarkation point July 29, 1919, at La Mons; set sail August 1, 1919, on Pacific Mail steamer (Manchuria); arrived at New York; ten days on water; went to Mitchell Field, Long Island; discharged August 28, 1919; twenty-four months' service. Enlisted as private and finished as Sergeant. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Mt. Moriah, No. 300, Huntingdon, Pa.; I.O.O.F., No. 121, Lebanon, Pa.; Knights of Pythias, No. 295, Huntingdon, Pa. He has two brothers: William Boyd and Cloyd are twins; Cloyd is deceased; he was a machinist; died at the age of thirty-three; James H. is with a large auto distributing firm at Harrisburg, Pa.; he is in charge of the office. He has four sisters: Mertie and Gertie are twins; Mertie is married to William Hull, a painter and decorator, at Hazlewood, Pa. Gertie is married to T. H. Mayhew, a road foreman, at Kelsey City, Florida; Mabel, married to Fred Boring, Barberton, Ohio, a contract painter; Maude, married to Frank Warfel, a postal clerk, Huntingdon, Pa. One sister is deceased, Elsie H., who died at the age of twenty-nine years. Clarence E. Smith was married to Amelia Wolfe, of Lebanon, Pa. She had two nephews in the World War. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one daughter, Betty Jane, first year in school. They reside at 622 Church street.