Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Smith was born on 3 March 1818, in Collingbourne Kingston, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Smith, was 36 and his mother, Jane Chandler, was 32. He married Elizabeth Ann Mercer on 22 September 1836, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Christiana Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 9 November 1888, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Murray Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Henry Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
- Henry Smith, "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980"
- Henry Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1832 · First Peach Orchard Planted
Isaac Reeves is credited with being Delaware's first farmer to plant over 30 acres of peaches near the city of New Castle. In over ten years, he would expand his crop to over a hundred acres. His success prompted others to plant orchards in Kent and Sussex counties. This gave the state the nickname the ""Peach State"" for awhile.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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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Death of George Thomas Smith on Pioneer Trail
Tuesday (August) 12th (1862) Started out quarter to 7.o. Clock & traveled 14 Miles & nooned near where the road leaves the Platt[e] for wood river <a child of Henry Smith died of measles>[.] at 3.o. C …
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