Claud H Smith

Male3 February 1886–2 December 1929

Brief Life History of Claud H

When Claud H Smith was born on 3 February 1886, in Jackson, Iowa, United States, his father, John Hall Smith, was 22 and his mother, Rose Gibson, was 25. He married Lola Ellen Stoker about 1916. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in South Fork Township, Jackson, Iowa, United States in 1900 and O'Neal Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1920. He died on 2 December 1929, in San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 43.

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Family Time Line

Claud H Smith
1886–1929
Lola Ellen Stoker
1895–1981
Marriage: about 1916
Ila Rose Smith
1918–2008

Sources (9)

  • Claude Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Claud Hall Smith, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Claude H Smith, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1916

    • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

    Age 4

    This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

    1890 · Woman's Suffrage

    Age 4

    An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 12

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    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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