When William Henry Smith was born in January 1865, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Michael Smith, was 19 and his mother, Emeliza Sisco, was 20. He married Margaret Loftin Leach on 19 January 1898, in Preble, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Dallas Township, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Dallas Center, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 22 May 1927, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Dallas Center, Dallas, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1869: Dallas, Iowa, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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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