Isaac Smith, farmer, P. O. Driftwood, was born in what is now Gibson township, Cameron Co., Penn., February 15, 1840, and is a son of Benjamin and Ann E. (Mix) Smith. His paternal grandfather was Samuel Smith, a pioneer of Gibson township, on whose porch the two burglars, Conley and Lewis, were shot in an early day. The children of Samuel Smith were Solomon, Jacob, Isaac, Benjamin and Jordan. Of these, Benjamin, father of Isaac, was a farmer and lumberman by occupation, and was run over and killed by the cars on the Allegheny Valley Railroad. His children were Isaac, Julia A., Hezekiah M., Kate (Mrs. Powell Barr), Henry, Jordan and Ellen (Mrs. John McMullen). The maternal parents of Isaac were James and Catherine (Overturf) Mix, pioneers of Gibson township. Isaac Smith was reared in Gibson township, where he has always resided, and, since 1868, has occupied his present farm, which he cleared and improved. He married Roena, daughter of James Kyle of Bingham, Potter Co., Penn., and they have six children: Benjamin, Ann E. (Mrs. Gary Mason), Adelbert J., Alma, Dorothy and Alfred. Mr. Smith was in the Civil war, serving thirteen months in Company G., Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; politically he is a Republican.

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