Brief Life History of Tressie A
When Tressie A Smith was born on 10 November 1883, in Granby, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel Clark Smith, was 63 and her mother, Katie A Kellogg, was 30. She married Henry Davis Hoag Jr. on 14 February 1906, in Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 22 July 1909, in Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Granby, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Tresie Alice Smith, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Tressie A Smith, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Tressie Alice Hoag, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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