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Persoonlijke gegevens Harry B. Smith Long 

• Hij is geboren oktober 1893 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA.Bronnen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1910: Sunbury Ward 2, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Bron 1
• Northumberland, Pennsylvania.Bron 6
• in het jaar 1942: Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.Bron 2
• in het jaar 1930: Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.Bron 4
• in het jaar 1920: Sunbury Ward 2, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Bron 3
• in het jaar 1900: Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.Bron 5
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1945, hij was toen 51 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Frank Keith Long en Elizabeth Andrews

Gezin van Harry B. Smith Long

Hij is getrouwd met Esther Baumgardner.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. (Niet openbaar)

Notities over Harry B. Smith Long

«b»Harry D Long«/b»

Birth: «tab»Aug. 22, 1893
Death: «tab»May 8, 1966

Inscription:
Pennsylvania, AS USNRF, World War I

«u»Burial:«/u»
Harrisburg Cemetery
Harrisburg
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: Glenn Koons
Record added: Apr 29, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 36528681

«b»Per the US Census of 1910«/b», Frank K. Long (47) was a Conductor on a railroad and living with his wife, Elizabeth (44) and two of their children: William A. (21), railroad brakeman and Harry B. S. (16), in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA.

«b» 1920 United States Federal Census«/b»
Name: «tab»Elizabeth A Long
Home in 1920: «tab»Sunbury Ward 2, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Age: «tab»54 years
Estimated Birth Year: «tab»abt 1866
Birthplace: «tab»Pennsylvania
Relation to Head-of-house: «tab»Head
Father's Birth Place: «tab»Wales
Mother's Birth Place: «tab»Wales
Marital Status: «tab»Widow
Race: «tab»White
Sex: «tab»Female
Home owned: «tab»Rent
Able to read: «tab»Yes
Able to Write: «tab»Yes

«u»Household Members:«/u» «tab»
«u»Name «/u»«tab» «u»Age«/u»
Elizabeth A Long «tab» 54 Hair Dresser (at home)
Harry E Long «tab» 8 grandson
Harry B Long «tab» 26 son

«b» 1930 United States Federal Census«/b»
Name: «tab»Harry B Long
Home in 1930: «tab»Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Age: «tab»36
Estimated Birth Year: «tab»abt 1894
Relation to Head-of-house: «tab»Son
Parent's Name: «tab»Elizabeth A
Race: «tab»White
Occupation: Lumber Inspector - Reading RR

«u»Household Members«/u»: «tab»
«u»Name«/u» «tab» «u»Age«/u»
Elizabeth A Long «tab» 64
Harry B Long «tab» 36

«b»Notes from Jeff Long, grandson of Harry Smith Long:

«/b»5/29/2009
Hi Glenn,
The following is some material about my grandfather, Harry, plus his father Frank and mother Elizabeth (nee Andrews.). They are both buried at Pomfret Cemetery in Sunbury, along with a baby named Jesse C. Long, and a Harry A. Long, whom I'm trying to figure out. Jeff

Originally named Harry B. Smith Long after his father's best friend. Not liking the initials B.S., he had the S. removed when he was an adult.

According to the 1930 census taken in Sunbury PA, Harry was living with his mother Elizabeth A. Long, following his divorce from Esther (sometime between 1924 when they married and the 1930 Census which shows them divorced). He was listed as 36 yrs old, a lumber inspector with the Reading Railroad.

He was listed as a World War veteran. He served in the U.S. Army, 20th Engineers, 6th Company.

According to the 1920 census Harry B. was living with his mother Elizabeth, and her grandson Harry E. age 8. Harry B. was employed as a forester with the Phil and Reading RR.

The 1910 Census taken in Sunbury lists Frank as head of household, age 47, a railroad conductor. He and his his wife Elizabeth had been married 25 years. Their 21-year-old son William A. was working as a brakeman for the railroad. Their youngest son Harry B.S. was 16 and his occupation was listed as none.

The 1900 Census/Sunbury states Frank K. Long was born in Oct. 1862. He was listed as a Conductor with the RR.

Also, according to 1900 Census, his neighbors included a RR engineer, a paper hanger, a butcher, a RR flagman, a RR conductor, and a grocer.

«b»More notes on Harry B. Long «tab»«tab»«tab»«tab»1/9/08«/b»

According to Dad, the Long clan in Sunbury remained distant and chilly to him throughout his childhood. Even today, when Dad is 82 years old, the memory gives him a sad pause. Now and then he would see his father, but only rarely. The mood was not helped by Harry's neglect in paying child support to Esther (Dad's mother.) She repeatedly had to take Harry to court to pay what had been mandated at their divorce. The Longs lived in Spartan fashion, and the railroad men were frequently gone.

Harry had little money, especially once the Depression hit. He graduated with honors from Penn State, but remained content to be a lumber inspector/purchaser for the Reading Railroad the rest of his life, never rising any higher. He smoked heavily, drank with the timber and railroad men, and ate unhealthy food on his travels up and down the line from Canada to the Gulf Coast. He had angina, which is often a precursor to heart attacks, and it was a heart attack that probably killed him in 1945.

During the Depression he took menial jobs, and finally joined the CCC, a New Deal work relief program that put men to work on public works. Harry was assigned to the CCC camp near Gettysburg, at Carlyle PA. On one occasion a friend of Harry's drove Dad down for a week at the camp. Dad was young and remembers very little except that the camp was neat with barracks and a mess hall. Army officers and a doctor lived there. Also, he remembers that Max Schelling knocked out Joe Lewis, and all the workers listened to it happen on the radio. Dad stayed a week or so.

Harry registered for the draft in late April of 1942. On his registration form it is noted that he was 5'7" and weighed 180 pounds. His eyes were brown, his hair grey, and he was missing the first finger and part of his second finger on his right hand. Dad didn't know that (I found it on Harry's draft card at the beginning of WWII. Harry registered for the draft at the age of 48! They didn't use his services.) Harry's nail apparently grew in a claw– like curve over the tip of one of the fingers, which is all Dad recalls.

Harry had angina, a precursor to heart disease. In 1945, while Dad was at Annapolis, Harry had a massive heart attack and died. He left $500 in cash under the rug, all they found of his labors. The money was given to his mother Elizabeth, with whom he had lived ever since leaving Esther and his son.
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