Brief Life History of Hiram E
When Hiram E Smith was born on 1 April 1842, in Clinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Austin Toplin Smith, was 31 and his mother, Martha Williams Garland, was 19. He married Lucinda Bunnell about 1866, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Montgomery Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 10 March 1928, in Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Franklinton, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States.
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- Hiram G. Smith, "United States Census, 1880"
- Hiram G Smith, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Hiram G. Smith, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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