Interested in learning when DAVIS SMITH died and where buried and years his school was in existance.
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www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/allegany/BiographyFiles/Minar...Except:
the Castile Scientific and Mathematical Institute conducted by Prof. Davis W. Smith, a teacher of much eminence
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The Abridged compendium of American genealogy: first families of America:
a genealogical encyclopedia of the United States,
edited by Frederick A. Virkus under direction of Albert Nelson Marquis;
with a new foreword by P. William Filby. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987. 7
v: ill.;
25 cm.
Page. 495.
(exerpt)
1 - SCOFIELD, GRACE EMILY SMITH (MRS. EDWIN J.) b. Osage, IA, Aug. 1, 1874.
6 - JOSHUA SMITH (1732-99), of R.I., First Lt., Am. Rev.: m. ANNE TRIPP (1746-1821; EDWD.7. Am. Rev., m. AVIS - ):
5 - DAVID (SMITH) (1761-1837), Providence, R.I., and Townshend, VT; Am. Rev.: m. 1780, MARY SMITH (d. 1837; RICH.4, m. ELIZABETH GEAR);
4 - RICHARD (SMITH) (1782-1837), Townshend, VT., to Sherbrook (Sherbrooke) Que.; m. 1808, SARAH WHITE (1785-1869); EDWD 5, Am. Rev., m. SARAH TOURTELOTTE);
3 - DAVIS WHITE (SMITH) (1815-93), Lawyer and teacher, Castile, N.Y.; conducted pvt. sch.: m. 1841, EMILY SKINNER WELLES:
2 - GERSHOM WELLS (SMITH) (2 below)
Corrections by JSR 10-18-06:
6- parents listed for ANNE TRIPP are not correct. In checking the Rev War record for EDWARD TRIPP discovered he had no dau. ANNE.
4 - RICHARD SMITH's death date is not correct & spouse SARAH WHITE is believeed to have been his first spouse) the dates listed are those of his wife SARAH KNAPP (listed as his wife in record for birth of daughter SARAH ANN WHITE SMITH, dated 1827, and cemetery & death record)
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