Charles Eugene Smith

Brief Life History of Charles Eugene

When Charles Eugene Smith was born on 24 April 1883, in East Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, his father, John Bernard Smith, was 28 and his mother, Janette Elizabeth Chamberlain, was 26. He died on 31 March 1884, in The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

John Bernard Smith
1855–1935
Janette Elizabeth Chamberlain
1857–1952
Blanche Viola Smith
1877–1969
William Jay Smith
1879–1882
Nellie Myrtle Smith
1881–1882
Charles Eugene Smith
1883–1884
Jessie Edna Smith
1885–1923
Herbert Floyd Smith
1887–1900
Gracie May Smith
1889–1892
Mabel Glenora Smith
1892–1896
Hazel Irene Smith
1895–2000
Raymond Carl Smith
1896–1988
Donald Grant Smith
1898–1982

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    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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