History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . Cath-erine, was born soon after they came to built a log house, which is standing at thiswriting, and cleared the farm, where he en-dured the hardships of pioneer life and diedabout eight years later. After his death thetwo boys remained on the farm, and finishedclearing the land, and in 1892 built a largeframe house to replace the old log cabin. Al-fred T. was married Oct. 20, 1859 to SusannaC. Kunsman. CURTIS P. SMITH is a son of Elias A. and Ann J. (McGeever)Smith, and a grandson of Elias, th
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . Cath-erine, was born soon after they came to built a log house, which is standing at thiswriting, and cleared the farm, where he en-dured the hardships of pioneer life and diedabout eight years later. After his death thetwo boys remained on the farm, and finishedclearing the land, and in 1892 built a largeframe house to replace the old log cabin. Al-fred T. was married Oct. 20, 1859 to SusannaC. Kunsman. CURTIS P. SMITH is a son of Elias A. and Ann J. (McGeever)Smith, and a grandson of Elias, the first settlerof the Smith family in Newton township. Mr. Smith was married Nov. 20, 1894 toMiss Margaret (Johns) Jones, Mr. and have one son, Ralph M., born Sept. 2,1898. Three other children died in infancy. Elias A. Smith, a son of Elias, born March27, 1827, on the farm settled by his father. Pliswife, Ann J. McGeever, born in August, 1842in Liverpool, England. To this union six chil-dren were born, viz.: (1) George F., residingnear Mill City, was bom July 20, 1857, and. X K o fa O HO z H Q M P3 HISTORY OF NEWTO,N TOWNSHIP 151 married Miss Clara Course. She died Aug. 30,1907. (2) Melvin, born Oct. 9, 1859 and diedNov. 7, 1862. (3) Curtis P., born July 23,1863. (4) Bertha E., bom March 22, 1866and married Horace B. Ross. Thej^ are livingat 1918 Price Street, Scranton. (5) WilliamH., born Aug. 9, 1869. (6) Elias J., bornSept. 17, 1875. William and EUas are livingin Newton. Elias A. Smith remained home with hisfather; he was a man of great energy and in-dustry. He took a contract to deliver 100,-000 feet of hemlock lumber in Wilkes-Barre at$ per thousand feet. This lumber wassawed in the first mill (the slow-up-and-downtype) erected by his father, and was hauled toRansom, a distance of six miles, thence raftedon the river from Ransom to $400 received for the lumber was appliedon the debt against his fathers farm, which wasabout to be sold. ? He w
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