BIO: Elmer A. SMITH, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 196.
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E. A. SMITH
Petersburg, Pa.

Foreman, State Highway Department:  Born near Cassville, Huntingdon 
County, Pa., August 10, 1876.  A son of R. P. Smith, a farmer, who 
owned a farm of 165 acres, and died in 1914, at the age of sixty-one 
years, and of Amanda Fisher, who died in 1924, at the age of seventy 
years.  E. A. Smith commenced to learn the mysteries of an education at 
the Washington School at Smith Valley, in Cass Township, Huntingdon 
County, Pa.  He also attended a summer school at Cassville, and was a 
farmer in Shaver's Creek Valley for seventeen years; in winter months 
was engaged at lumbering.  For the past two years he has been a foreman 
for the State Highway Department.  He has served as School Director of 
Barree Township, and Supervisor in Shaver's Creek Valley; Secretary of 
the School Board for twelve years, and also was on election board.  A 
member of the Methodist Church; his wife also.  He belongs to the 
Patrons of Husbandry, No. 353, Shaver's Creek Grange.  A Republican.  
He has two brothers:  C. B., a farmer and thresherman, Shaver's Creek 
Valley; D. C., a farmer, Saltillo, Pa.  E. A. Smith was married to Ella 
Wright, a daughter of J. Frank and Lydia Wright.  They have three sons:  
Chester, married to Nora Garver, Pittsburgh, Pa.  He is a rollerman in 
a steel mill; Robert, married to Pauline Hoffman, Neff's Mills; Ebert, 
married to Gertrude Lang, Pittsburgh, Pa.  Four daughters:  Edna, 
married to Harry Grossman, farmers, Petersburg, Pa.  She is a graduate 
of Huntingdon High School, and spent two years at Juniata College; was 
also a teacher several years; Lillian, married to S. W. Lightner, a 
foreman, with Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Viola, at High 
School, Petersburg, Pa., a Junior; Phyllis, twelve years of age, at 
school.

Note: 
Elmer A. Smith, 55, Ella M. Smith, 56, Viola B. Smith, 15, and Phyllis 
M. Smith, 12, are listed in the 1930 Petersburg, Huntingdon County 
census.