Brief Life History of Harvey Winfield
When Harvey Winfield Smith was born on 21 August 1897, in Ellis, Texas, United States, his father, James William Smith, was 23 and his mother, Martha Ann Helms, was 22. He married Lillie Florence Stevenson on 12 September 1923, in Jefferson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 6 Artesia, Eddy, New Mexico, United States in 1940 and Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico, United States for about 1 years. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 22 December 1968, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.
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- Harvey W Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
- Harvey W Smith, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Harvey Winfield Smith, "New Mexico, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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