James Buchanan Smail and Mary Etta Elizabeth Baker

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Husband James Buchanan Smail ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Jun 1857 - Burrell Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Jan 1926 2
         Buried:  - Evergreen Cemetery, Gilpin Twp, Armstrong Co, PA

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         Father: Daniel Smail (1825-1863) 1 3
         Mother: Catherine Helery (      -1864) 1 3

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       Marriage: 1877 2 4

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   Other Spouse: Ella Mechling (1854-      ) 2 4 - 17 Jan or 17 Nov 1893 2 4

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Wife Mary Etta Elizabeth Baker ^{2 4}

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           Born: 1855 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1892 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Griffith Baker (      -      ) 2 4
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Myrtle Estrella Smail ^{2 4}

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           Born: Apr 1878 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Dr. J. H. Chessrown (      -      ) 4

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2 F Christina Carolyn "Chrissie" Smail ^{2 4}

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           Born: 13 Aug 1880 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Aug 1974 - Youngstown, Mahoning Co, OH 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: David Tomer Malarkey (1871-1947) 2
           Marr: 15 Jul 1929 2

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3 M James Alfred Smail ^{2 4}

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           Born: Sep 1885 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Gertrude Parkin (      -      ) 2

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4 M William Smail ^{4 5}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - James Buchanan Smail

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He attended public school in his native township, and he was practically reared by W. H. Carnahan, with whom he remained until he was fourteen years old. The next three years he was in the state of Missouri, where he was employed at farm work and in a rope walk. Returning home he drove team for Schwalm & Carnahan, merchants, at Cochran's Mill, Pennsylvania, for one year, and then was with Major Beale for one year. After that he began farming in Parks township, Armstrong County, for Abraham Heckman, and later located in Parkville, Armstrong County, engaging in the mercantile business. Under President Cleveland he was appointed postmaster at that point, the post office being known as Dime, and remained there for eight years. He was next employed at the coal mines by Capt. Alfred Hicks, first as weighmaster. Resigning from this position he went to the Duff College in Pittsburgh, where he took a commercial course, after which he returned to Mr. Hicks' employ, working in his store at Leechburg. Subsequently he was made general superintendent of mines on the Monongahela river and at Monongahela City, and also had charge as such at Neffs, Ohio, for some time. He then entered business at Leechburg as a member of the firm of Smail & Fiscus, general merchants, and in time became the head of the firm of Smail, Stull & Hill, hardware dealers, Mr. Smail erecting what was known as the Smail building, on Second street, 60 by 53 feet in dimensions, for the accommodation of their business.
He became deeply interested in western mining concerns, was general manager of the Pennsylvania Mining & Milling Company, located in Missouri, where the company had seven hundred acres of land valuable for its deposits of coal, lead, zinc, etc., and was general superintendent of the Belmont Coal Mining Company. As a supporter of local enterprises he was president of the Leechburg Realty Company and of the Leechburg Board of Trade, was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Leechburg (of which he was a director), and was a member of the Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company.
Socially he was affiliated with the local lodges of Elks and the Royal Arcanum.
In 1909 he was elected burgess by a very large majority in spite of the fact that the borough was Republican and he himself was a Democrat.
He was a member of the Methodist Church, which he served as treasurer.

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Notes: Marriage

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Besides the children listed, Cyrus Smail, Lebanna Smail and John Smail are mentioned in the records
of the Klingensmith family historian, but nothing more is known about them. They are not memtioned in the obituary of James B. Smail.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 440.

2 Marlin A. Field, Peter Smail of Pennsylvania & His Descendants (Ozark, MO: Dogwood Printing, Sept., 1990), Pg 246.

3 Marlin A. Field, Peter Smail of Pennsylvania & His Descendants (Ozark, MO: Dogwood Printing, Sept., 1990), Pg 242.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 441.

5 Marlin A. Field, Peter Smail of Pennsylvania & His Descendants (Ozark, MO: Dogwood Printing, Sept., 1990), Pg 247.