Brief Life History of Kim Allen
When Kim Allen Smith was born on 26 November 1956, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Woodrow Freeman Smith, was 39 and his mother, Bessie Briggs, was 38. He died on 15 April 1963, in his hometown, at the age of 6, and was buried in Teton, Idaho, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Kim Allen Smith - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Kim Allen Smith
- Kim Allen Smith, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Kim Allen Smith, "Idaho, Jefferson Star, County Cemetery Records, 1800-2000"
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World Events (7)
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
1960 · Fifty Star Flag
The 50 Star Flag Design is adopted to be the nation’s flag
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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