Brief Life History of Edward Glenn
When Edward Glenn Smith was born on 3 June 1883, in Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, his father, Frank Smith, was 20 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Bowling, was 24. He married Eliza Victoria Sayers on 4 October 1900, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Buchanan, Virginia, United States in 1910. He died on 12 May 1968, in Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Tazewell, Virginia, United States.
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- Edward G Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Edward G. Smith, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Edward Smith, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1892 · Name change
Name changed from Jeffersonville to Tazewell in 1892.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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