When Abigail Smith was born on 16 October 1836, in Barron Lake, Howard Township, Cass, Michigan, United States, her father, Jessie Smith, was 27 and her mother, Catherine Rensler, was 23. She married Jonathan S Coolidge on 6 February 1853, in Edgewood, Clayton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and Lodomillo Township, Clayton, Iowa, United States for about 30 years. She died on 5 August 1914, in Edgewood, Clayton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Edgewood, Clayton, Iowa, United States.
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Michigan is the 26th state.
Historical Boundaries: 1852: Clayton, Iowa, United States [Spreads across Clayton and Delaware counties]
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
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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