BIO:  Alosyus 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 69

ALOSYUS SMITH was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Adams County, in 1830, is a 
son of Joseph and Mary (Lawrence) Smith, both natives of Adams County, and is of 
German descent.  His paternal grandfather was Charles Smith, a native of 
Germany, who came to America and settled in Adams County, where he died in 1832.  
Subject’s father was born in 1792, and his mother in 1800; the former died in 
1857; the latter in 1864.  Mr. Smith was reared on the farm and in 1849 came to 
Hanover and learned the blacksmith trade, and worked at it nine years; then 
began coach-making, which he followed twelve years; he then began the lumber 
business in 1872, and then the livery business and dealing in horses and mules.  
He was married, in 1854, to Miss Agnes Hember, also a native of Adams County, 
and has had born to him thirteen children.  He is a Republican and with his wife 
a member of the Catholic Church.