Robert L. Smeltz, b: 1926 -

^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}
^{1969 Armstrong first person on the moon}
^{1973 US launches Skylab space station}
^{1981 Columbia is first space shuttle}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}

^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1929 The Great Depression begins}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}

^{1879 Edison invents phono/light bulb}
^{1898 Spanish-American War}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1908 Ford produces Model T}
^{1913 Edison invents movies w/sound}



	^{Jacob Emanuel Smeltz}^{b.1906 Lykens Township, d.1968}

^{Robert L. Smeltz}^{b.1926 , d.}		^{Penrose Emmanuel Klinger}^{b.1877 Stone Valley, d.1936}

	^{Ida M. Klinger}^{b.1907 d.1980}	^{Ida Agnes Kratzer}^{b.1883 d.1942 ,}





^{Mattie Florence Ranck}^b.1928 d.