Brief Life History of Andrew Jackson
When Andrew Jackson Smith was born on 1 November 1819, in Harrison, Crosby Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, his father, John B Smith, was 25 and his mother, Esther Metcalfe, was 17. He married Mahala Ann Cooper on 12 October 1842. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marshall Township, Marshall, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Greencastle Township, Marshall, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died on 20 July 1887, in Timber Creek Township, Marshall, Iowa, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Timber Creek Cemetery, Timber Creek Township, Marshall, Iowa, United States.
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- A J Smith, "United States Census, 1860"
- Andrew J Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jackson Smith in entry for William Smith, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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