Samuel Gordon Smyth

Smyth, Samuel Gordon, West Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pa. 1898.

Born July 24, 1859, at Penn's Manor, Bucks County, Pa. Parents emigrated in youth from Ulster, Ireland, about 1835. They came to Philadelphia, Pa., and were married by Rev. Dr. Blackwood September 21, 1851; father, Jonathan Smyth, son of James and Martha Gray Smyth of "The Mullans" Furoy, County Antrim, Ireland; mother, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah Mac Alus Ritchie, of Barkhill, Kelsea, County Derry, Ireland. Secretary; elder and trustee of the Conshohocken Presbyterian Church; Commissioner to Synod at Bellefonte, Pa., October, 1896; member of the Town Council of West Conshohocken, Pa., from 1894 to 1897; President of that organization in 1896-97; President of the Board of Health; trustee of the Montgomery and member of the Montgomery County and Bucks County (Pa.) Historical Societies; member of Fritz Lodge No. 420 F. and A. M., Conshohocken, Pa.; member of Philadelphia National Lodge No. 223, and of National Encampment No. 47, I. O. O. F., Philadelphia, Pa.

Scotch-Irish Society of America. The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Tenth Congress, Chambersburg, Pa., May 30-June 2, 1901. Nashville, TN: Bigham & Smith, 1902, p. 320.

Submitted by Nancy.