Samuel Gordon Smyth was a prominent local historian and genealogist in West Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1859 to Irish immigrant parents Jonathon Smyth and Elizabeth Ritchie. Committed to community involvement, Samuel G. Smyth was active in the Conshohocken Presbyterian Church, Town Council of West Conshohocken, and Board of Health. He was also a member of lodges of the Free & Active Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Smyth wrote numerous articles and speeches about Conshohocken local and Irish-American history and genealogy, including the book A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family, from Civil, Military, Church and Family Records and Documents (Lancaster, Pa.: The New Era Printing Company, 1909). He was a member of the Historical Society of Montgomery County and the Bucks County Historical Society. Smyth died in 1930.
Bibliography:
Freehafer, Nancy J. "Samuel Gordon Smyth." Montgomery County PAGenWeb. Accessed May 18, 2012. http://montgomery.pa-roots.com/Biographies/SamuelGordonSmyth.html
From the guide to the Samuel Gordon Smyth scrapbooks, 1882-1929, (Conshohocken Historical Society)
