Brief Life History of John
When John Smith was born on 25 March 1806, in Ware, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Lemuel Smith Jr, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Jenkins, was 37. He married Lucy Welton Jones on 5 December 1830, in Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 2 January 1858, in Randolph Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Hatch Cemetery, Guys Mills, Randolph Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John Smith, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Smith, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- John Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
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.
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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