Brief Life History of Banner Allen
When Banner Allen Smith was born on 12 November 1881, in North Greenfield, Logan, Ohio, United States, his father, Shepherd Wayne Smith, was 23 and his mother, Arie Adna Harrington, was 21. He married Ola Ellen Williams on 22 March 1908, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Perry Township, Logan, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 11 May 1961, in Zanesfield, Logan, Ohio, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Zanesfield Cemetery, Zanesfield, Logan, Ohio, United States.
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- Banner A Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Banner Allen Smith - birth-name: Banner SMITH
- Banner A. Smith, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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