Brief Life History of Richard Tracy
When Richard Tracy Smith was born on 17 February 1916, in Corning, Steuben, New York, United States, his father, Tracy J Smith, was 35 and his mother, Rose E Buerger, was 32. He lived in Steuben, New York, United States in 1920. He died on 5 December 2003, in Lamoille, Vermont, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Augusta, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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- Richard T Smith in household of Tracey J Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
- Richard T Smith, "Maine, Tombstone Inscriptions, Surname Index, 1620-2014"
- Richard T in entry for Gladys V Smith, "Maine, Tombstone Inscriptions, Surname Index, 1620-2014"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1917 · Joining the First World War
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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