Brief Life History of Harry Louis
When Harry Louis Smith was born in September 1883, in St. Johns Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States, his father, George Smith, was 26 and his mother, Mary E. Headlee, was 21. He lived in Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 1 November 1903, in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 20, and was buried in Rose Hill Memorial Gardens, Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Louis H Smith in household of George Smith, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Louis M. Smith - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Louis M. Smith
- Harry Louis Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1857–1928 Male
1862–1925 Female
Siblings (4)
1881–1940 Male
1883–1903 Male
1885–1934 Female
1893–1914 Female
World Events (8)
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
Age 1
1886
Age 3
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 7
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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