When Kenneth Orlando Smay was born on 23 December 1906, in Salix, Adams Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John W. Smay, was 55 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Fye, was 40. He lived in Adams Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 22 January 1991, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Litchfield, Medina, Ohio, United States.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Americanized form of German Schmeh: nickname for a slight or small person, from Middle High German smaehe ‘small, insignificant, despicable’.
Americanized form of Slovenian Smej: nickname from dialect smej ‘laugh(ter)’.
History: The majority of the Smays are descendants of Johannes Schmeh, a German who in the middle of the 18th century settled in MD.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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