James Bicknell Smith
8 August 1835–31 March 1916 (Age 80)
Westmoreland, Oneida, New York, United States
The Life Summary of James Bicknell
When James Bicknell Smith was born on 8 August 1835, in Westmoreland, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, Frederick Smith, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Bicknell, was 25. He died on 31 March 1916, in Westmoreland, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 80.
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Family Time Line
James Bicknell Smith
1835–1916
Jennie Burrows
1842–1907
Spouse and Children
1835–1916Male
1842–1907Female
Parents and Siblings
1809–1867Male
1809–1895Female
Siblings
(2)
1835–1916Male
1840–1924Male
World Events (8)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 1
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 1
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
Age 11
1846
Age 11
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Age 28
1863
Age 28
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Faber
Sources (2)
- James B Smith, "United States Census, 1900"
- James Smith in household of Frederick Smith, "New York State Census, 1855"
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