Mayor Ross Porter Welcomes Matthew de Smeth on Visit to Smethport
Smethport Web — by Nathan Muller Matthew de Smeth, 22, a descendant of the Dutch financial family after which Smethport is named, is visiting the Borough this week. A student studying civil engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Matthew lives in Australia, where his father moved in the 1950s after working at a rubber plantation in “Belgian” Congo. While on a trip to Toronto, Matthew decided to…