Clarence M. Smith – Band Director, Business Owner
Born in 1882, Smith learned to play the cornet in 1896 at the age of 14.
George H. Stewart – Businessman
Born in 1837, George H. Stewart Sr. was educated in Shippensburg and then Milnwood Academy. He became a businessman early on in his life and his first venture was working a mercantile business in Shippensburg from 1851-1869. He was also involved in buying and selling real estate, which became the foundation for his wealth. Eventually, he became the largest landowner in the valley for many years, owning over 100 farms and parcels of land at the time of his death.
Stewart’s uncanny business acumen led him to be involved in tanning leather, a railroad magnate, grain merchant, and president of the Valley National Bank of Chambersburg. Throughout his life he was also the treasurer of Wilson College; director in the First National Bank of Shippensburg and the Farmers Trust Company of Carlisle.
Stewart had married Mary C. McLean in 1862 but was widowed with no children in 1884. He remarried in 1886 to Ella J. Snodgrass and had two children, George H. Stewart Jr. and Alexander Stewart M.D.
Stewart passed away in 1931 at the age of 93.