When Harry Havelock Smith was born on 4 November 1899, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, Harry Havelock Smith, was 36 and his mother, Amalia Emily Christensen, was 29. He married Venice Orlena Bills on 5 October 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He immigrated to Sweet Grass, Montana, United States in 1936 and lived in Stavely, MD of Willow Creek No. 26, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died on 17 May 1963, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Archmount Cemetery, Lethbridge County, Alberta, Canada.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Construction started on the Montana state capital in 1899. In 1902 the capital was completed.
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.
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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