This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28497 Message Board Post: Adam H. Smith, D. D. S. Adam H. Smith, was born in Hopewell Township, York County, Penn., August 14, 1842. His parents, Frederick and Martha (James) Smith, natives of York County, and of German and English extraction, had thirteen children; three died in childhood, and one, Daniel L., a teacher, was killed by the cars at or near Coatesville, Penn., in 1879. Adam H. was the third son and child in a family of four sons and six daughters that grew to manhood and womanhood. He was brought up on a farm and educated at Stewartstown Academy, and at the age of twenty-one, taught in the public schools. In 1865 he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Burke, at Stewartstown, and remained with him about eighteen months. He then took a course at the Baltimore School of Dental Surgery, after which he located permanently at Glen Rock, and has now (1884) been in the practice of his profession about eighteen years. He enlisted in August 1864, at Harrisburg, in Company C, Two Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania Volunte! ers, and served in the Army of the Potomac to the close of the war, participating in the battles of Hatcher’s Run, etc., and was promoted to be commissary sergeant of his regiment. He was married, in 1867, at Glen Rock, to Elmira W. Lamison, a native of York County, and has four children: Ernest Montville, Alta Cynthia, Howard Roy and Martha Maud. He is one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Glen Rock, of which he and his wife are members. He has served one term as borough councilman (1868) and is auditor of Glen Rock Borough at this writing. Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor