BIOS: Andrew Jenkins SMITH, Elk Lick, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 344

ANDREW JENKINS SMITH

Andrew Jenkins Smith, of Elk Lick, is a son of Michael Smith, who was born
in County Kings, Ireland, and in 1835 came to the United States, being then
about nineteen years old.  He settled in Cumberland, Maryland, where he was
employed in company with his brothers, John and Nicholas, on Chesapeake and
Ohio canal contract work.  He remained there until 1837, when he removed to
Elk Lick Township and settled on the old John J. Keim farm, where he made
his home until 1840.  In that year he migrated to Mount Savage, where he was
employed in the rolling-mill.  He soon abandoned this for the Sullivan farm
in Elk Lick Township, and in 1850 went to Illinois.  The following year, he
returned and took up his abode on the farm known as the 'David Livengood
farm,' now owned by his son, Andrew Jenkins Smith.  Mr. Smith married, in
1840, Elizabeth, daughter of _____Griffith of Elk Lick Township, and their
children were: John, William, Marx, Andrew Jenkins (see forward), Mary,
Ellen, David, Michael, Anna, and Phillip.
Andrew Jenkins Smith, son of Michael and Elizabeth (Griffith) Smith was born
June 6, 1851, in Illinois, and obtained his education in the public schools
of Summit and Elk Lick Townships which he attended until the age of
twenty-one.  He worked on his father's farm until 1878 and then entered the
soft coal mines, where he was employed until 1903.  In that year he entered
the service of the C.T. Hay Lumber Company, and in July, 1904, purchased the
farm on which he has since lived.  From 1881 to 1884 he served as tax
collector of Salisbury borough.  He belongs to the United Mine Workers'
Association and is a Democrat in politics.  He is a member of St. Michael's
Roman Catholic church, of West Salisbury.
Mr. Smith married, in 1887, Lydia, daughter of Ambrose McKengie, of Garrett
county, Maryland, and they became the parents of the following children:
Mary Edna, John, Lawrence, Michael Allen, and James Andrew. Mrs. Smith died
March 1, 1893.