Brief Life History of Albert Palmer
When Albert Palmer Smith was born on 10 August 1906, in Piedmont, Wayne, Missouri, United States, his father, Arthur Delmont Smith, was 24 and his mother, Mable Annis Honts, was 16. He married Olivia Pratt Driggs on 17 August 1930, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Benton Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935. He died on 14 February 1960, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Albert Smith in household of Arthur D Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
- Albert Palmer Smith, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Albert E Smith, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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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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