BIO:  Adam H. Smith, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 182

ADAM H. SMITH, D.D.S., was born in Hopewell Township, York County, August 14, 1842.  His 
parents, Frederick and Martha (James) Smith, natives of York County, and of German and English 
extraction, had thirteen children; three died in childhood, and one, Daniel L., a teacher, was 
killed by the cars at or near Coatesville, Penn., in 1879.  Adam H. was the third son and child 
in a family of four sons and six daughters that grew to manhood and womanhood.  He was brought 
up a farm and educated at Stewartstown Academy, and at the age of twenty-one, taught in the 
public schools.  In 1863 he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Burke, at Stewartstown, and 
remained with him about eighteen months.  He then took a course at the Baltimore School of 
Dental Surgery, after which he located permanently at Glen Rock, and has now (1884) been in the 
practice of his profession about eighteen years.  He enlisted in August, 1864, at Harrisburg, 
in Company C, Two Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served in the Army of the 
Potomac to the close of the war, participating in the battles of Hatcher’s Run, etc., and was 
promoted to be commissary sergeant of his regiment.  He was married, in 1867, at Glen Rock, to 
Elmira W. Lamison, a native of York County, and has four children:  Ernest Montville, Alta 
Cynthia, Howard Roy and Martha Maud.  He is one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, at Glen Rock, of which he and his wife are members.  He has served one term as borough 
councilman (1868) and is auditor of Glen Rock Borough at this writing.