When Agnes Charlotte Smith was born on 7 August 1836, in Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, United States, her father, Don Carlos Smith, was 20 and her mother, Agnes Moulton Coolbrith, was 28. She married William Henry Peterson on 3 March 1858, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1860 and California, United States in 1870. She died on 30 January 1874, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historic Notes: 1847: Name changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. 1856: San Francisco an Independent City.
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
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.
Possible Related NamesJosephine Donna Smith was born 10 March 1841 in Nauvoo, Illinois--just a few months previous to her father's death (Don Carlos Smith died 7 August 1941). She had two older sisters, Agnes Charlotte (b …
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