Frank Smith and Ora B. Holt

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Husband Frank Smith ¹

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           Born: 20 Dec 1869 - Girard Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2
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         Father: Isaac Smith (      -1905) 2
         Mother: Fanny [Unk] (      -Aft 1911) 2

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Wife Ora B. Holt ^{3 4}

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           Born: 16 Feb 1882 5
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         Father: Reuben Holt (1851-      ) 6 7
         Mother: Margaret E. Forcey (Abt 1855-1893) 3 7

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Children

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1 M Leslie Clair Smith ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Frank Smith

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He obtained a public school education in Girard township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and then went into the lumbering business. He was interested in this industry from boyhood, having begun by cutting, hauling, and rafting timber to be taken to market via the Susquehanna river. He followed this business, going down the river each year for eighteen successive years, spending the summers in the bark woods, always working by contract where possible.
In 1893 Mr. Smith purchased 300 acres of timber land lying along the West Branch of the Susquehanna river and spent several years in profitably clearing it and in 1908 sold the land to Isaac Stage of Clearfield, Pa. In 1897 he bought one hundred acres of land in West Keating township, Clinton County. When this was cleared he sold, in 1910, to James McGonigal. He later had some 750 acres of timber land under lease, kept three of his own teams at work and gave constant employment to from five to twelve men. For two years after his marriage he resided at Clearfield, where he built a residence and a store and engaged in business as a merchant. He then sold the store to E. L. Shirey and resumed his lumbering interests, first in Bradford township, then in Graham township and later in Lawrence township. Before coming to this section he had already cut more than 2,500 acres of land. In 1909 he purchased 124 acres of coal land in Boggs township, which promised to be profitable when developed.
In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of the Clearfield lodge of Odd Fellows.

1 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 478, 572.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 572.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 568, 645.

4 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 478, 573.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 645.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 644.

7 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 477.