Montour-Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Smith, Clinton S. 1861 - living in 1899

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CLINTON S. SMITH. Prominent among the leading business men of South Danville, is

the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He conducts a large and well-stocked

general store on Sunbury street and also owns considerable property in that

vicinity. He is a son of Samuel S. and Sarah (Reed) Smith, and was born in Irish

Valley, Shamokin township, Northumberland County, March 2, 1861.



  His grandfather, who was a well-known resident of that section of the county,

was Morris Smith, whose occupation was that of a miller. Dr. Samuel S. Smith,

the father, was born in Northumberland County and early in life decided upon a

medical career, studying under the direction of Dr. Joseph Robbins of Elysburg,

Pa. He subsequently took a course of study in the University of Pennsylvania of

two years' duration, and was graduated from that institution, after which he

entered upon his first practice at Hartleton, Union County. After a time he

moved to Trevorton, Northumberland County, where he was successfully engaged in

practice until his demise, which resulted from a complication of diseases in

1862, at the early age of thirty-four years. He was a man of high principles and

ambitions, and his death was a sad blow to his family and many friends. He

formed a matrimonial alliance with Sarah Reed, a daughter of Mathias Reed of

Irish Valley, Northumberland County, which union resulted in the following

issue: Galen, a farmer of Northumberland County; William, an agriculturist and

canner; Nelson M., a record of whose life appears elsewhere in this Book of

Biographies; Clinton S., the subject of this personal history; Laura, the wife

of Dr. Kline, a well-known physician of Reading; and Clara, who married

Lafayette Lechler, a farmer of Gearhart township.



  Clinton S. Smith, after attending the public school at Kipps Run and the

academy of Danville, taught school for two terms with good results, proving

himself an able instructor. He then turned his attention to farming in Gear-hart

township, at which he continued for a period of seven years on the old homestead

farm. He then removed to South Danville, Pa., where he purchased the general

store owned by D. R. Eckman on Sunbury street, which he has since conducted. The

building was erected some thirty years ago by Jordan Sober, and is now the

property of Peter Gear-hart. Mr. Smith has a complete and high-grade stock, and

the manner in which he caters to the wishes of his customers has not only added

greatly to his patronage but made him many personal and lasting friends as well.

In connection with the store, he was deputy postmaster for many years, and in

May, 1897, was appointed postmaster and is still serving in that capacity. He

owns considerable property in South Danville, including a double house just

below Railroad street, and another fine double house on Sunbury street.



   Mr. Smith was joined in marriage to Catherine M. Wilson, a daughter of David

Wilson, a prominent farmer of Valley township, Montour County, and five children

have blessed their union, namely: Viola G.; Nora M.; Nellie; Reed N.; and

Bertha. In religious views Mr. and Mrs. Smith are faithful members of the

Baptist Church. In politics our subject is a Republican and has always taken an

active part in local affairs.





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