. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. he wcrk3_V o i t;-,e «arm untilthe age of 25, At that age he w.^smarried to Miss Rejecca Siian;2l^,and came to Union, tak-ing up residence on Water the house nowi occupied by WilliamJamison, Greeted by Mrs. .Jane Mcr-I^son. Mr. Smeiker was engaged inthe butchering busine.:3 for 2 ysars,after which he Horace Greeleysadvice and wen^ We t, settling about40 miles souih;ve3; or St. his family he remained in t:eWest until IShS, when on accountof ill health, he returned to P:nn-syli;:nia an
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. he wcrk3_V o i t;-,e «arm untilthe age of 25, At that age he w.^smarried to Miss Rejecca Siian;2l^,and came to Union, tak-ing up residence on Water the house nowi occupied by WilliamJamison, Greeted by Mrs. .Jane Mcr-I^son. Mr. Smeiker was engaged inthe butchering busine.:3 for 2 ysars,after which he Horace Greeleysadvice and wen^ We t, settling about40 miles souih;ve3; or St. his family he remained in t:eWest until IShS, when on accountof ill health, he returned to P:nn-syli;:nia and entered into the mer-cantile bU:ine-; McVeytown, FrcmMcVeytown, M^-. Smelke- moved toHill Valley, -where he started intobusiness on a small scale. It wa; notIong. however, until by close api^lica-tion to duty and diligent effort hehad accn:ed considerable resources,and in the yenr 1889, the year ofthe great .Johnstown disaster, hecame to Mount Union and succeededDavid E. Shaver in the mercantilebusiness en the corner of Shirley andDivision H. S. Smelker U8 On his mothers side Mr. Smelkeris of Qualter descent. He is one ofthe family of 12 children, 6 boys and6 girls. Hei has been an ijctive citizen inthis community, has served ias bur-gess, and has been interested aMaysin the building up of the town. He isan active member of the Baptistchurch today. The stand occupied by Mr. Smelk-er is one of the oldest buildings inthe town, having been erected byJohn Lukens, dece3sed, father of Lukens of town, in 1871, John Lu-kens first started in the mercantilebusiness here, who was succeeded byhis son, Geo. W. Lukens, who waslater succeeded by D. E. Shaver in1884, and Shaver sold to Mr. Smelk-er in 1889. Mr. Smelker i& the fath-er of three children: Mrs. Ada Gloverof Pueblo, Coil., Mrs. Frank DeFrehnof Johnstown, and Miss Eva at home. HARVEY BENNETT Harvey Bennett is a native of Belle-ville, Mifflin County, having beenborn Mar. 12, 1850. His boyhood spent
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