Brief Life History of Philip Augustus
When Philip Augustus Smith was born on 5 December 1842, in Victoria, Knox, Illinois, United States, his father, John Smith, was 37 and his mother, Mary Gingrich, was 31. He married Melissa Pauline Ebright on 22 August 1866, in Knox, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wataga, Knox, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Union Township, Rice, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 4 October 1901, in Little River, Rice, Kansas, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Bean Cemetery, Little River, Rice, Kansas, United States.
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- Phillip Smith in household of John Smith, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Philip A Smith - Government record: Census record: birth: December 1843; Illinois, United States
- Phillip A Smith, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Knox, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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