Arta V Smith

Brief Life History of Arta V

When Arta V Smith was born on 1 August 1895, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Calvin Smith, was 29 and her mother, Emma Catherine Kimmel, was 27. She lived in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Washington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 9 April 1898, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Washington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Calvin Smith
1866–1931
Emma Catherine Kimmel
1867–1960
Melville Durwood Smith
1892–1964
Flora B Smith
1893–1898
Arta V Smith
1895–1898
Florence Alta Smith
1898–1960
John Elvin Smith
1900–1979
Jacob Clermont Smith
1901–1943

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World Events (2)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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