Henry H. Smyser

  General Notes:

HENRY H. SMYSER, son of David and Rebecca
(Eyster) Smyser, was born July 16, 1840. The sub-
ject of this sketch was the fifth of ten children;
Eliza, Martin, Sarah, Louisa. Henry, Mary (de-
ceased), Jacob, Amanda, Charles and Albert. Da-
vid Smyser, the father of our subject, was born in
1806, he was a prominent and influential farmer,
and was elected county commissioner in 1872. and
served the full term wilh credit to himself and sat-
isfaction to the people of the county. (For our
subject's ancestral history, see sketch of the Smy-
ser family, York Borough.) ¹