Brief Life History of Clete Cecil
When Clete Cecil Smith was born on 5 October 1884, in Warren, Illinois, United States, his father, William Earnest Smith, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Paulina Sailer, was 24. He married Eunice Ethel Trulock on 22 June 1915, in Knox, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Indian Point Township, Knox, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died in September 1974, in Saint Augustine, Knox, Illinois, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Fulton, Illinois, United States.
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- Cleat C P Smith in household of Willim E Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Clota Smith, "Iowa, Marriage Records, 1941-1951"
- Clete Cecil Smith, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
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.
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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