Brief Life History of Harrison Hatch
When Harrison Hatch Smith was born in December 1842, in Illinois, United States, his father, John Smith, was 28 and his mother, Minerva Jane Hargis, was 26. He married Catherine McFarland "Kate" McClintock on 11 March 1862, in McDonough, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in New Salem Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Richland, Colfax, Nebraska, United States in 1900. He died about 1915, in Schuyler, Colfax, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Schuyler, Colfax, Nebraska, United States.
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- Hatch Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
- Harrison Hargus Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
- Harrison Smith in entry for Edward Smith, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Platte, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Platte, Nebraska, United States 1869: Colfax, Nebraska, United States
1863
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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