Brief Life History of Orian Elizabeth
When Orian Elizabeth Smith was born on 19 July 1914, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Clarke Stull Smith, was 37 and her mother, Orian Elizabeth Dyer, was 23. She married John Franklin Tolton on 28 August 1937, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Los Angeles Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 16 September 2006, in Pebble Beach, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Orian S Tolton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Orian Elizabeth Smith, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Orian S Tolton, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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