Brief Life History of Leonard Bingley
When Leonard Bingley Smith was born on 5 September 1915, in Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Frank Roderick Smith, was 36 and his mother, Ethel May Schubert, was 31. He married Helen Gladys Rowe on 20 April 1940, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He lived in Detroit Ward 10, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Gratiot Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950. He died on 23 July 2002, in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States.
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- Leanord Smith in household of Frank Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mr Leonard Bingley Smith in the Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records, 1867
- Leonard Bingley Smith, "Michigan, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
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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