Brief Life History of George W
When George W Smith was born on 24 August 1843, in Clinton, Illinois, United States, his father, John A Smith, was 23 and his mother, Phebe Boswell, was 24. He married Agnes McGee Parker on 7 May 1866, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1866 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 8 August 1910, in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Union Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Geo W Smith in household of John A Smith, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: George W. Smith - Government record: Military record or discharge: burial: ; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
- George W. Smith, "Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Chicago Board of Trade
Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and is open 22 hours per day .
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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