Brief Life History of Bloomfield Theodore
When Bloomfield Theodore Smith Jr was born on 1 May 1913, in Garrison, McLean, North Dakota, United States, his father, Bloomfield Theodore Smith, was 29 and his mother, Martha Mindt, was 19. He married Lillian Bell in 1935. He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1947 and lived in McLean, North Dakota, United States in 1920 and School District 1 Glasgow, Valley, Montana, United States in 1940. He died in 1981, at the age of 68, and was buried in Garrison, McLean, North Dakota, United States.
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- Bloomfield Smith, "North Dakota Census, 1915"
- Bloomfield Theodore Smith, "Montana, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Bloomfield T. Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1919 · Oil is Discovered at Cat Creek
Located near Petroleum and Garfield counties in Montana is Cat Creek . It was here in 1919, that oil was discovered
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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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