Arthur Matthias Smith

Notes:

Roscoe Smith notes

Notes:

Birth & Death: Roscoe Smith notes (his son). He attended the local Stephensburg school and then a business school at Easton, Pa. He was then employed by his uncle, Daniel Vanatta, husband of Letitia (Letty) Beatty, later becoming a partner. In
1887 James E. Smith sold the Stephensburg business to William Miller and he and his brother Willard (my grandfather) purchased the general store business of Freas Brothers in the Jackson Building on the northwest corner of Front and Market
Streets in Berwick, Pa., which they together operated as Smith Brothers for the next thirty years. (See photo on den wall.) Two additional sons were born to James and Hattie; James Howard (19 May 1987) who married Gertrude Blunt; and Arthur
Matthias (7 April 1893) who married Meta Shobert. Willard married Louise Petty, sister of Hattie, and to them was born one son, Clarence Willard who married Laura Wilde.

James Edgar Smith was a very active person, a devout member of the First Presbyterian Church, Berwick, a trustee at time of building a new church at Second and Vine Streets, later sold to the Reformed Congregation when the Market Street church
was built, shortly thereafter becoming a lifetime elder and in 1943 received a testimonial spread on the Minutes of the Session for having served continuously as such for fifty years. At the time of his death he was the oldest living Past
Master of Knapp Lodge No. 462, F. & A.M. which he had also served for more than twenty years as Secretary. At the time of his death he was Senior Vice President and only surviving member of the first board of directors of the Berwick Bank. He
was also at that time senior member of the board of directors of the Berwick Building & Loan Association, and also of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association. He served on Berwick Borough Council and for many years was President of Berwick Board
of School Directors. He owned and/or controlled, not as an agent nor ever too many at one time, a number of rental properties, helped to organize and for a period operated the Berwick Shirt Manufacturing Company, and later the Berwick Match
Company. He also had a controlling interest in the Valley Hard Vein (roofing) Slate Company with quarry at Edlemans, Pa. which ceased operation at time of World War I as a non-essential industry and never again successfully operated on account
of higher freight rates and the development of less expensive light weight roofing. He was ambitious and active until death; collapsed while mowing the lawn the afternoon of the day before his end. (Age 93)

James married Hattie Petty on 1 Jan 1884 in Briar Creek Twp, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Roscoe Smith notes: HATTIE PETTY came to Stephensburg with her grandmother to visit Mrs. Pell's sister Julia Lines Beatty, step-grandmother of James Edgar Smith. James and Hattie were married at her parents home in Briar Creek Township
adjacent to Berwick, Pa. January 1, 1884. They lived in Stephensburg where their first son, Roscoe Lee Smith, born May 10, 1885, in the detached frame house on the store property which was across a commons north of the grist mill, all
buildings still standing in May 1960.

Notes:

ISAAC SNOVER SMITH (1835-1919) a cabinet maker and undertaker, retired about age 55. He came to Pleasant Grove, N.J. to help furnish the new Presbyterian Church on Scheeley's Mountain and there met and married Ann Elizabeth Beatty, only child
of James Beatty, Jr. and Sarah Fritts, his first wife. They lived at Pleasant Grove until after their first son, James Edgar Smith (1859-1952) was born when they moved two miles to Stephensburg, N.J. and spent the remainder of their days
there. Other children on this marriage were: Flora who never married; Willard (1865-1938) who married Louise Petty; Bertha who married Floyd Evans; and Kate who married John Park Baldwin. Isaac Snover Smith became an elder of the Presbyterian
Church at Pleasant Grove, where he is buried in a plot adjacent to that of his father-in-law, and after retirement until his death conducted Sunday School afternoons and evening services (Christian Endeavor) each sabbath and Prayer Meeting on
Wednesday evenings in the one-room schoolhouse at Stephensburg. (Roscoe Smith notes, my files)

Marriage date from Pat Lemoine - from Warren Co. records.

Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - Has name as Isaac L. Smith, occupation, undertaker.

BIRTH: Place of birth from Willard Smith's death certificate. I don't know where Kalarama is and have sent for his death cert.

BIRTH: Date of birth from death cert.

DEATH: Date of death from death cert. Age 83 yrs., 11 mos., 15 days. Place of death: Washington, Morris Co. Cause of death diabetes mellitis. Place of burial and date.Flora Smith signed certificate which is in my file.

Isaac married Anne Elizabeth Beatty on 26 Oct 1858 in Presby. church, Pleasant Grove, Morris, NJ. Anne was born in 1834 in Stephensburg, Morris, NJ; died in 1927; was buried in Pleasant Grove, Morris, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The name is spelled Beaty in "Copied from notes of James Edgar Smith" in my possession

BIRTH: Place of birth from Willard Smith's death certificate in his file.

Notes:

The Kinney family originated in Holland and first settled near Stroudsburg, Pa. We presently know nothing of them. John W. and Catherine Smith had one son, Isaac Snover Smith (1835-1919) and three daughters: Sarah; Catherine (Mrs. John Kist
- no issue); and Rachael. Sarah and Rachael did not marry. John W. was injured early in his career as a millwright and lived quietly in Kalarama thereafter. (Roscoe Smith notes) (I bet his middle name was Wintermute. LP)



Birth and christening dates from Stillwater Presbyterian Church Records in Genealogy Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. 42, No. 1, Whole No. 160. Copy sent to Louise SP by Mary Miller in La.

John married Catharine Ann Kinney. Catharine (daughter of Frederick M. Kinney and Margaret "Peggy"(Anne) Snover) was born on 21 Jun 1806 in Sussex County, NJ; died on 8 Nov 1899; was buried in Knowlton Presbyterian Churchyard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NJGM v.51, #1, Jan 1976, Knowlton Presbyterian Churchyard - "John W. Smith "father" b. 1803, d. (27 Sep) 1862, (aged 59.4.12); wife Catharine A., b. 1806, d. (8 Nov.) 1889, (aged 83.4.17); dau. Sarah M. 1833-1909; dau. Rachel M., 1839-1922.
There is a new stone for the parents with their old stones still standing; additional data from old stones"

IGI has her as Caty Ann b. ca 1808