BIO:  Henry H. Smyser, 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, West Manchester Township, Pg 200

HENRY H. SMYSER, son of David and Rebecca (Eyster) Smyser, was born July 16, 1840.  The 
subject of this sketch was the fifth of ten children:  Eliza, Martin, Sarah, Louisa, Henry, 
Mary (deceased), Jacob, Amanda, Charles and Albert.  David Smyser, the father of our 
subject, was born in 1806, he was a prominent and influential farmer, and was elected county 
commissioner in 1872, and served the full term with credit to himself and satisfaction to 
the people of the county.  (For our subject’s ancestral history, see sketch of the Smyser 
family, York Borough.)