BIO:  Malcolm O. 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, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 68

MALCOLM O. SMITH, editor and proprietor of the Hanover Herald, and a well known 
local historical writer, was born in York in the year 1846, and is a son of 
William W. and Charlotte (Stair) Smith; he received superior educational 
advantages, attending the York public schools, the York Classical and Normal 
Institute, Eastman’s Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and the 
Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg; also has had a practical experience of five 
terms as teacher of select and public schools.  In March, 1865, he enlisted in 
Company D, One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was in service 
until August of the same year.  Having previously learned the trade of a 
printer, Mr. Smith began his journalistic career in 1870, establishing the Glen 
Rock Item, which he successfully conducted until he sold out in 1872, and in 
that year established the Hanover Herald, of which he is still the editor and 
proprietor.  Mr. Smith is an able writer and has made his journal especially 
attractive by publishing historical matter of interest concerning the early 
“Annals of Hanover,” and “Early History of York County,” etc., to the careful 
compilation of which he has devoted much time and earnest labor.  Many 
incidents, facts and much valuable history, as preserved by him, appear in the 
appropriate chapters in this work.  The Pennsylvania College bestowed on him in 
1873, the honorary degree of A. B.  Mr. Smith is a citizen of progressive ideas, 
and one of the most successful newspaper men in York County.  He has taken an 
earnest interest in the affairs of the Grand Army of the Republic, and served as 
Commander of Maj. Jenkins Post, No. 99, at Hanover, for the first three years of 
its existence.  He is secretary of the Hanover Agricultural Society, in the 
organization of which society he was especially active.  His marriage with Miss 
Louisa H. S., daughter of Dr. F. E. Vandersloot, of Gettysburg, occurred in 
1867.  Three children, all of whom died in early childhood, were the fruits of 
this union.