BIO:  George W. 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, Warrington Township, Pg 197

GEORGE W. SMITH was born in Washington Township, June 10, 1862, and is the second of the six 
children born to Jacob T. and Catherine (Hollinger) Smith, as follows:  Anna, George W., Katie 
C., John C., Jacob H. and Jonas.  Subject’s grandfather, John W. Smith, was a native of York 
County, was a miller and farmer, and died in 1878 at the age of seventy-six; grandfather George 
Hollinger was also a native of York County and a farmer.  Jacob T. Smith, subject’s father, is 
a native of Washington Township, and is the owner of two farms of 120 acres each.  George W. 
Smith was reared on the home farm until the age of twenty-one, when he went West for a while; 
he then returned and engaged in mercantile business at Rossville where he has a prosperous 
trade, and of which point he was appointed postmaster in February, 1884.  June 5, 1884, he 
married Amanda J., daughter of Jacob H. Spangler, of Dover Township.