BIO: Clark Myton SMITH, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 207.
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CLARK MYTON SMITH
Miller Township, Huntingdon Co., Pa.

Retired:  Clark Myton Smith has lived to see this section of the county 
develop into an agricultural section, with wide acres cleared by the 
woodsmen and its soil tilled by eager hands.  He is thoroughly 
acquainted with every nook and corner of this section.  All his life 
has he farmed; knows the requirements of the soil; a good judge of 
livestock and in every phase of this industry he has been successful.  
He was born April 11, 1862, on a farm.  All his life has been spent in 
Miller township.  At Smith's school he learned the benefits of an 
education.  Back in the '60s education was thorough, while the 
facilities were crude.  John Smith was his father, who died March 19, 
1872, when the subject of this sketch was but ten years of age.  His 
mother, Priscilla Smith, died Dec. 7, 1885.  Clark Smith has always 
taken an interest in political affairs.  He has served on the school 
and election board, and has held all township offices.  He is a 
pronounced Republican and adheres to its policies.  His brothers and 
sisters are all deceased.  For seventeen years of his life he was a 
rural mail carrier for he United States government, on Route No. 2, out 
of Huntingdon, Pa.  He owns a farm.  He was married to Alice Hall, of 
Oneida township, in December, 1891.  They have one daughter, who is 
married, Mrs. Beulah M. Shires; she is a school teacher at Tyrone, Pa.  
Clark Myton Smith represents that type of men who have done things, and 
today finds him retired after years of constructive work, setting the 
example that hard work brings its rewards.